Kheru Dreadmaw
Creature — Zombie Crocodile
Defender
, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Khans of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #25259
Kheru Dreadmaw trades five mana for a 4/4 with menace and a one-shot life drain — serviceable body, real cost. At five mana for a single enter-the-battlefield trigger that doesn't recur, it's a bulk creature that demands a reanimation or flicker shell to justify the slot.
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 |
Kheru Dreadmaw is a Commander card through and through — the format's slower pace gives the drain trigger room to matter, and graveyard commanders can loop it for repeated value. In Pauper it's legal but competes with more efficient commons at the five-drop slot, so it rarely sees play. Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage have no interest in a 4/4 that drains two at this cost when those formats demand far more leverage per mana. Stick to Commander, and only in decks built to replay it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Kheru Dreadmaw is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that fills a very specific role. Don't expect the price to move; it's a casual-only creature with no competitive demand and wide print availability.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.