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Haunted Dead

Creature — Zombie

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
{1}{B}, Discard two cards: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Innistrad Remastered
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#19267
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Haunted Dead card art
Haunted Dead enters as a 2/2 and brings a 1/1 Spirit token with it — then reanimates itself from the graveyard for two discards and a mana, which turns it into a discard-outlet engine rather than a one-shot play. Pair it with Phyrexian Altar and the loop becomes a mana-positive recursion machine that most graveyard decks will run for free.

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

Commander is where Haunted Dead earns its slot — graveyard decks here are endemic, discard synergies are abundant, and a self-recurring threat that generates tokens scales well past the early turns. In Modern and Pioneer it's too slow and too fragile against the interaction density those formats demand; competitive graveyard strategies there want faster payoffs. Legacy and Vintage are similarly inhospitable — the card does nothing broken enough to justify the slot when those formats offer more explosive lines. Haunted Dead is a Commander card through and through.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Haunted Dead is deep bulk — grab a copy without thinking twice. Bulk rares with active combo applications rarely spike hard, but this one does exactly enough work in graveyard builds that its floor is as stable as bulk gets.

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