Rotting Legion
Creature — Zombie
This creature enters tapped.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2011
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #30655
Rotting Legion is a 4/8 for five mana with swampwalk — a big body that becomes unblockable against any black player at the table, which is most tables. The cost is real: five mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature with no ETB and no evasion guarantee is a tough sell in Commander.
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, Rotting Legion lives or dies by how many black decks are sitting across from you — in a typical pod with at least one Swamp in play, you have a 4/8 unblockable threat for five mana, which is passable but not exciting. Outside multiplayer, swampwalk is close to a blank in formats like Legacy, Vintage, and Modern where black opponents aren't a given and five mana for a vanilla-stat creature gets outclassed immediately. Pauper is the one format where Rotting Legion sees the most honest competition, but even there dedicated mono-black builds prefer cheaper threats with more relevant text. The card is legal everywhere it could matter and playable nowhere it does.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Rotting Legion is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a common box and stays there. There's no meaningful demand driver that would move the needle on that price.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.