Jhessian Zombies
Creature — Zombie
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Islandcycling 
, swampcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Alara Reborn
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #19541
Jhessian Zombies is a 3/3 unblockable for five mana — the stat-to-cost ratio is poor and the effect is narrow. Paying five for a single unblockable creature is a bad deal in any format where better options exist.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Jhessian Zombies sees essentially no competitive play across any format it's legal in. In Commander, five mana for a 3/3 unblockable body is a steep ask when Dimir and Esper zombie builds have access to far more efficient threats and evasion packages. In Pauper, the common card pool is constrained, but even there a five-mana 3/3 with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no synergy text is hard to justify. Legacy and Vintage don't give it a second look — the power bar is simply too high for a vanilla-adjacent creature at this cost.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Jhessian Zombies is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a lot box, not a deck. The price reflects demand accurately and is unlikely to move without a sudden, unlikely spike in narrow unblockable-tribal strategies.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.