Honor the God-Pharaoh
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards. Amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- War of the Spark
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #14165
Honor the God-Pharaoh cycles itself, draws a card, and puts a 2/2 Zombie token into play — all for three mana at sorcery speed. That's a lot of action on one card, and it earns a slot in any deck that wants cheap token generation alongside card replacement.
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 |
Honor the God-Pharaoh is at its best in Commander, where token synergies compound fast and card advantage is always welcome at any mana cost. Zombie tribal lists, aristocrats shells, and Nicol Bolas flavor builds all have reasons to run it. In Pauper it's technically legal but too slow for a format that punishes three-mana sorceries that don't close games. Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Pioneer have the card legal on paper but no realistic home — the effect is powerful relative to its cost only in multiplayer contexts where each Zombie token touches multiple synergies at once.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Honor the God-Pharaoh is deep bulk — pick it up in any trade binder without thinking twice. Bulk rares rarely climb unless a new commander pushes the archetype into the spotlight, so treat it as a cheap pickup rather than a hold.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.