Shamble Back

Sorcery

Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. You gain 2 life.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Shadows over Innistrad
Price
$0.18
EDHREC rank
#18125
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Shamble Back card art
Shamble Back exiles a creature from any graveyard and puts a 2/2 zombie token onto the battlefield — all for one black mana at sorcery speed. It's a clean two-for-one in graveyard-heavy metas, and at one mana it's never a dead card.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

In Commander, Shamble Back earns its slot in any black deck that wants incidental graveyard hate without dedicating a card slot to a do-nothing hoser — you get a body alongside the exile effect, which matters when you're trying to stabilize a board. Pauper is where it sees the most competitive daylight, since the one-mana cost and token generation both punch above bulk-rare weight in aggressive and midrange black shells. In Modern and Pioneer it's outclassed by dedicated graveyard hate like Leyline of the Void or even Soul-Guide Lantern, so it only shows up as a budget option or in creature-token synergy builds. Legacy and Vintage have too much velocity for a sorcery-speed one-shot exile to matter. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander calculus — fine in a pinch, rarely optimal.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.18 bulk tier

At $0.18, Shamble Back is deep bulk — pick up a playset for under a dollar without thinking twice. Prices at this floor don't move unless a competitive deck adopts the card in volume, and nothing on the horizon suggests that's coming.

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