Shambling Attendants
Creature — Zombie
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 
.)
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
- CMC
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Khans of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #26256
Shambling Attendants is a 4/4 deathtouch body for one mana — if your graveyard is doing its job. The delve cost makes it nearly free in any deck that fills the yard fast, and deathtouch on a four-power creature is a meaningful threat that demands an answer.
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 |
In Commander, Shambling Attendants earns a slot in any dedicated graveyard deck — self-mill, reanimator, or Zombie tribal — where delve costs collapse to one or two generic mana by midgame. Pauper is where it gets genuinely interesting: a common-legal 4/4 deathtouch for effectively one mana is above rate for the format, and graveyard-fueled Dimir shells can leverage it as a finisher. In Modern and Legacy, the competition from other delve payoffs is steep, and Shambling Attendants rarely makes the cut over cards with more immediate impact. Pioneer sits in a similar spot — legal but crowded out by more efficient options.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Shambling Attendants is bulk — you're picking these out of a commons box or adding them to a cart as filler. Bulk commons with genuine graveyard utility don't spike, but they also don't lose value from here.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.