Makeshift Mauler
Creature — Zombie Horror
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #25447
Makeshift Mauler lands as a 4/5 for four mana — above the vanilla rate — and costs you nothing beyond a creature already in your graveyard. It's a clean payoff for any strategy that's already filling the bin, with no additional setup required beyond what those decks are doing anyway.
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, Makeshift Mauler is a role-player in graveyard decks that want cheap, sizeable bodies — think Gisa and Geralf or Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver lists that flood the bin naturally. Pauper is where Makeshift Mauler has the most competitive relevance, slotting into Reanimator and self-mill shells that need a threatening body without a mana premium. Legacy and Vintage are too fast for a four-mana 4/5 with no enters-the-battlefield effect to matter. Pauper remains its real home.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Makeshift Mauler is deep bulk — you're grabbing it out of a commons box, not a store page. That price is stable indefinitely; there's no demand pressure that would move a common of this power level.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.