Loyal Cathar // Unhallowed Cathar
Creature — Human Soldier // Creature — Zombie Soldier
Vigilance
When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dark Ascension
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #29097
Loyal Cathar // Unhallowed Cathar puts two bodies on the board for two mana — a vigilant Human on the front end that flips into a recursion-proof zombie threat when it dies. The cost is that neither half is individually impressive; you're running this because the double-body density matters more than raw power.
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, Loyal Cathar // Unhallowed Cathar earns its slot in token, aristocrats, and Human-tribal builds that want persistent, low-cost bodies. Pauper is its most competitive home — the double-body for two mana is genuinely above the format's rate in white weenie and humans shells, and the vigilance clause matters in a format full of aggressive racing. Legacy and Vintage have the card legal but no realistic use case; the power floor is far too low to compete with those formats' two-drop benchmarks. Modern and Pioneer are where this card quietly disappears — neither format has a shell that needs a 1/1 with upside badly enough to want Loyal Cathar // Unhallowed Cathar over more efficient options.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Loyal Cathar // Unhallowed Cathar is deep bulk — you're paying for a sleeve, not a card. It won't hold or gain value, but it doesn't need to; if you want the effect, the barrier to picking up four copies is essentially zero.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.