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Poxwalkers

Creature — Zombie

Deathtouch
Curse of the Walking Pox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Warhammer 40,000 Commander
Price
$11.28
EDHREC rank
#8426
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Poxwalkers card art
Poxwalkers enters as a 3/3 with no mana cost when you cast a nontoken creature with the lowest power on the battlefield — stack a discard or sacrifice shell and it shows up for free, repeatedly. Squee, the Immortal and similar recursive threats let you chain the trigger turn after turn, and Rakdos, the Muscle turns every free body into fuel for his attack-trigger tax engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Rakdos, the Muscle

Rakdos, the Muscle

63.2% of decks · synergy 0.62

Rakdos, the Muscle demands opponents sacrifice creatures whenever he attacks, and Poxwalkers fills your side of the board for free to keep pressure mounting — a 3/3 that costs nothing slots perfectly into the sacrifice-fodder loop that makes Rakdos, the Muscle's punisher effect stick.

02
Abaddon the Despoiler

Abaddon the Despoiler

31.8% of decks · synergy 0.31

Abaddon the Despoiler cascades off spells with mana value equal to the number of omen counters, so you want a low-to-the-ground board presence that doesn't cost you card equity — Poxwalkers delivers a body without a spell slot, letting you preserve cascade fuel for the spells that actually matter.

03
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord

Zul Ashur, Lich Lord

18.7% of decks · synergy 0.18

Zul Ashur, Lich Lord wins by overwhelming opponents with undead tokens and zombie-tribal synergies, and Poxwalkers is a Zombie that arrives free whenever you play into the game plan — no extra investment, just a recursive threat that feeds the board state Zul Ashur, Lich Lord needs to close games.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Poxwalkers is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — the formats where it actually sees play are Commander and Legacy fringe, with everything else a non-starter. In Commander it earns its slot in discard, sacrifice, and zombie-tribal shells where the free-body trigger fires consistently. Legacy and Vintage technically allow it, but a three-power three-drop with a conditional trigger doesn't compete in those formats without a dedicated shell built around it. Commander is the home where Poxwalkers does real work.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Reassembling Skeleton and Bloodsoaked Champion both offer recursive bodies at low mana cost and serve as repeatable sacrifice fodder, though neither arrives for free the way Poxwalkers does — you're trading the no-mana-cost upside for more consistent, unconditional recursion. If the free-entry trigger is what you actually want, there's no direct one-for-one replacement; Poxwalkers fills a specific niche that cheaper alternatives approximate rather than replicate.

Price Context

Current price

$11.28 mid tier

At $11.28, Poxwalkers sits in the mid tier — meaningful money for a single non-mythic, justified only if Rakdos, the Muscle or a comparable free-body engine is your commander. It's a staple in a narrow slice of decks, not a broad role-player, so only buy in if the shell actively needs it.

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