Hobbling Zombie
Creature — Zombie
Deathtouch
When this creature dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #15938
Hobbling Zombie enters tapped and hits for two — a vanilla 2/2 with a built-in tempo penalty that most formats outgrew years ago. Unless you're specifically synergizing with enters-tapped triggers or zombie tribal payoffs, there are better bodies at this cost.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hobbling Zombie is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, zombie tribal decks have access to Gravecrawler, Relentless Dead, and lord effects that make a vanilla 2/2 with an enters-tapped drawback a near-automatic cut. Pauper is where the card has the most theoretical footing — the format's lower power floor makes bodies matter more — but even there, a tapped entry point is a real liability in aggressive builds. Hobbling Zombie is a draft-filler card that has simply never translated to constructed.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Hobbling Zombie is deep bulk — the kind of price that reflects honest demand. That number isn't going anywhere; there's no competitive application waiting to emerge that would move it.
Explore
Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.