Lurching Rotbeast
Creature — Zombie Beast
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Hour of Devastation
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #18720
Lurching Rotbeast is a 4/3 body for five mana with a cycling cost that requires discarding a land — playable stats stapled to a narrow, conditional cycling trigger. Unless your deck specifically rewards land discard or graveyard cycling, there are better five-drops doing more work.
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 |
Lurching Rotbeast is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play in almost none of them. In competitive formats like Legacy and Modern, a five-mana 4/3 with a clunky cycling cost doesn't clear the bar. Pauper is the most plausible home — commons with cycling occasionally find niche roles in graveyard or cycling-matters shells — but even there, Lurching Rotbeast competes with cheaper cyclers that don't demand a land discard. In Commander, it's outclassed by virtually every other five-drop in black or colorless shells.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Lurching Rotbeast is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. That price reflects its play rate accurately, and there's no pressure vector that would push it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.