Kheru Lich Lord
Creature — Zombie Wizard
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay 
. If you do, return a creature card at random from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains flying, trample, and haste. Exile that card at the beginning of your next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Khans of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #26329
Kheru Lich Lord reanimates a creature from any graveyard at the start of your upkeep, giving it flying, trample, and haste — then exiles it at end of turn, which means you get exactly one swing but it's free from any setup cost beyond paying six mana to land the lord. Six mana is the real ask, and in faster metas that's often too slow to matter.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Kheru Lich Lord is a Commander card through and through — the six-mana cost and slow, upkeep-triggered payoff are tuned for a 40-life multiplayer game where graveyards fill up naturally and one massive swinging threat per turn can shift the board state. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's simply too slow and too fragile at six mana to compete when the format's threats cost two or three and close games faster than it can ever get going. Vintage has the raw power density to make it irrelevant even in fair matchups. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it occasionally earns a slot, but only in dedicated reanimator piles where the signature spell gets it into play ahead of curve.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Kheru Lich Lord is deep bulk — you'll find it in dollar boxes and bulk lots without effort. The price reflects its narrow Commander niche rather than any lack of power in the right shell; it's unlikely to spike unless a popular commander pushes Sultai reanimator into the spotlight.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.