Prized Amalgam
Creature — Zombie
Whenever a creature enters, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #13416
Prized Amalgam is a free 3/3 that returns from the graveyard every time you reanimate a creature — the only cost is getting it into the bin in the first place, which any self-respecting graveyard deck is already doing. In Gisa and Geralf builds especially, it routinely comes back turn after turn without spending a single mana.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gisa and Geralf
Gisa and Geralf mills Prized Amalgam naturally while casting Zombies from the graveyard, which means every reanimation trigger pulls it back for free — it's not a synergy piece so much as an automatic engine component.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Prized Amalgam is a role-player in any Zombie or graveyard deck that's reanimating creatures regularly — the free recursion adds up fast over a long game. In Modern and Pioneer, it's been a staple of dredge and self-mill strategies where loading the graveyard is the entire plan, and a free 3/3 that comes back every turn is exactly the payoff those decks want. Legacy graveyard shells can run it too, though the competition for slots is stiffer there. Prized Amalgam isn't a format-warping card on its own, but it consistently overperforms in any shell that can reliably trigger its return condition.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't currently available for Prized Amalgam, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number before buying. Given its presence across Modern, Pioneer, and Commander graveyard decks, expect it to carry at least a modest price tag — it's not a bulk rare.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.