Llanowar Dead
Creature — Zombie Elf
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- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Apocalypse
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #15451
Llanowar Dead taps for black or green mana, but costs two mana itself — that's a do-nothing rate in a slot where one-mana accelerants like Llanowar Elves and Elvish Mystic exist. Run it only when your deck specifically wants a black-producing body on turn two and has already exhausted better options.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Llanowar Dead competes in the hardest slot in the game — two-mana ramp — against cards that either cost one or produce more than one mana, and it loses most of those comparisons. Pauper is where it has the most plausible home, since the card pool at common thins out quickly and a Golgari body that produces colored mana has real utility in multicolor aggro or sacrifice shells. Legacy and Vintage are legal but effectively irrelevant — those formats don't run vanilla mana dorks at this rate. Oathbreaker follows Commander logic, so the same limitations apply.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Llanowar Dead is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. That price reflects its power level accurately and is unlikely to move absent an unexpected reprint in a high-profile product.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.