Maalfeld Twins
Creature — Zombie
When this creature dies, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Foundations
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #18573
Maalfeld Twins enters as a 4/4 and leaves two 2/2 Zombie tokens behind when it dies — six total power across three bodies for six mana. That rate is only worth the slot in decks that specifically want sacrifice fodder or death triggers; everywhere else, six mana for a vanilla that dies to a Shock is too slow.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Maalfeld Twins is a Commander card through and through — the formats where you'd actually run it are sacrifice and aristocrats shells that want repeated death triggers from a single spell. In 1v1 formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, six mana for a 4/4 that splits into two 2/2s is nowhere near rate; any competitively viable deck ignores it entirely. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where bulk creatures occasionally carve out niche roles, but Maalfeld Twins is an uncommon and still too slow for that format's aggressive clock. In Commander, it earns a real look in Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver or Gisa and Geralf shells — three Zombie bodies from one card feeds both token payoffs and sacrifice engines simultaneously.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Maalfeld Twins is deep bulk — zero financial risk to test it in a deck. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply is plentiful; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.