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Gutterbones

Creature — Skeleton Warrior

This creature enters tapped.
{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your turn and only if an opponent lost life this turn.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Ravnica Allegiance Promos
Price
$0.78
EDHREC rank
#9882
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Gutterbones card art
Gutterbones is a recursive one-drop that comes back from the graveyard every time an opponent loses life, making it a persistent threat in black aggro and reanimator shells. The catch is the {1}{B} return cost, which Embalmer's Tools reduces to nearly nothing in untap-heavy loops.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Gutterbones earns its slot in black aggro, aristocrats, and reanimator decks that can guarantee opponents lose life on a reliable schedule — without that trigger, it's a Swamp-hungry 2/1 with no other upside. In Modern and Pioneer, it sees fringe play in black aggressive shells where the life-loss condition is trivially met by your own drain effects or combat damage, but it competes with stronger one-drops and rarely earns a main-deck slot. Legacy's card quality makes Gutterbones largely irrelevant outside of niche combo contexts. Oathbreaker mirrors its Commander role — strong in the right shell, dead weight in the wrong one.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.78 bulk tier

At $0.78, Gutterbones sits in bulk rare territory and is easy to pick up without a second thought. It's a stable buy — casual demand from Commander aristocrats and recursive black strategies keeps the floor from collapsing further.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.