Kathari Bomber
Creature — Bird Shaman
Flying
When this creature deals combat damage to a player, create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens and sacrifice this creature.
Unearth (
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Masters 2017
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #24357
Kathari Bomber enters, makes two 1/1 Goblin tokens, and when it dies it unearths itself for three mana — netting you another death trigger and two more tokens. The cost is a 3/2 body for five mana that needs to die to do its best work, which makes it dependent on a deck built around sacrifice or recursion to justify the slot.
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 |
In Commander, Kathari Bomber finds a home in sacrifice-matters and token-doubler shells where the two enter-the-battlefield Goblin tokens and the built-in unearth recursion chain together for repeated value — commanders like Prossh, Skyraider of Kher or Korvold, Famine-Cursed King squeeze the most from every death trigger it generates. Pauper is arguably its best competitive home, where five-mana creatures need to clear a higher bar, but token generation plus free recursion can fuel specific combo or aristocrats lists. In Legacy and Vintage, Kathari Bomber is simply too slow and too low-impact to see play. Modern has moved well past the power level where a five-mana creature generating two 1/1s is competitive, even with unearthing upside.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Kathari Bomber is deep bulk — you'll find copies in any common box or dollar rare bin without hunting. That price is stable because demand is narrow; it's a role-player in niche Commander and Pauper builds, not a card chasing general adoption.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.