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Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion

Legendary Creature — Zombie Minotaur Warrior

Trample
Whenever Neheb deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, you may discard any number of cards. If you do, draw that many cards and add that much {R}. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
War of the Spark Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3777
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Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion card art
Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion turns combat into a wheel engine — every hit discards cards and replaces them, and anything discarded that isn't a land dumps that much mana into your pool. The cost is that it demands a critical mass of instants and sorceries worth pitching, and it folds immediately to any blocker; pair it with Aggravated Assault and the mana loop becomes infinite extra combat before the turn ever ends, and Sethron, Hurloon General puts it in an 86% of builds for exactly that reason.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Sethron, Hurloon General

Sethron, Hurloon General

86.3% of decks · synergy 0.84

Sethron, Hurloon General builds a Minotaur tribal engine, and Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion is the fuel — every attack wheel-effects the hand while flooding the mana pool to pay for Sethron's triggered abilities and subsequent spells the same turn.

02
Gornog, the Red Reaper

Gornog, the Red Reaper

63.9% of decks · synergy 0.59

Gornog, the Red Reaper rewards combat and punishes blockers, so Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion's discard-loot trigger fires freely — the mana it generates lets Gornog's controller chain spells mid-combat rather than waiting for second main phase.

03

Clive, Ifrit's Dominant

52.5% of decks · synergy 0.48

Clive, Ifrit's Dominant cares about noncreature spells and building toward explosive turns, making Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion the red-mana accelerant that converts early attacks into the spell mana Clive needs to close games.

04
Feldon of the Third Path

Feldon of the Third Path

36.4% of decks · synergy 0.32

Feldon of the Third Path wants big creatures in the graveyard to reanimate as tokens, and Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion's discard effect self-mills while generating the mana Feldon needs to activate multiple times in a single turn.

05
Neheb, the Eternal

Neheb, the Eternal

30.1% of decks · synergy 0.25

Neheb, the Eternal already rewards dealing damage with postcombat mana, so pairing it with Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion stacks two separate mana-generation triggers off the same attack step — one on hit, one after combat — compounding into very large mana totals.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion lives — the format's longer games and spell-heavy midrange strategies give it time to generate the mana surges that matter, and the Aggravated Assault combo has a real finish line. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, a four-mana 5/4 that needs to connect to do anything is too slow and too easily blocked; there's no practical reason to run it over faster threats. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — nothing about Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion is powerful enough to compete at those power levels on a fair plan, and there's no degenerate loop worth building around there. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it earns a look, particularly as a signature spell target for red planeswalkers that want mana acceleration, but that's a narrow slot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

5,245 decks
Neheb, Dreadhorde ChampionAggravated Assault

Neheb, Dreadhorde ChampionAggravated Assault

Infinite draw triggers; Infinite rummaging; Infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite combat damage; Near-infinite combat phases; Near-infinite untap of creatures you control; Near-infinite mana creatures you control can produce

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion isn't currently available in this context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. Given its combo relevance with Aggravated Assault and its 86% inclusion in Sethron builds, it's the kind of card that spikes quietly — worth picking up before you need it rather than after.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.