Rottenheart Ghoul
Creature — Zombie
When this creature dies, target player discards a card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #25887
Rottenheart Ghoul makes an opponent discard when it dies — a 3/2 for four mana that trades up only if you're recurring it or engineering its death repeatedly. As a one-shot effect on a vanilla-statted body, it's too slow and too fragile to justify the slot in most builds.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Rottenheart Ghoul is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, forced discard requires either mass scale or repeated triggers to matter — one card lost from a 99-card hand is irrelevant, and four mana for a 3/2 dies-trigger doesn't scale. In Pauper, where commons compete at a higher rate of efficiency, a four-mana 3/2 with a conditional discard trigger on death can't keep up with the format's threat density. Rottenheart Ghoul is technically legal everywhere; it's just not good enough anywhere.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Rottenheart Ghoul is deep bulk — the kind of card that costs more to ship than it does to buy. There's no pressure driving that number up, so treat it as a zero-cost throw-in at best.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.