Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
Legendary Creature — Snake Shaman
Whenever Sidisi enters or attacks, mill three cards.
Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Khans of Tarkir
- Price
- $1.61
- EDHREC rank
- #3477
Sidisi, Brood Tyrant mills your library and turns every creature that falls into the graveyard into a 2/2 Zombie — on the same trigger, every time she or a creature enters and mills. The cost is a four-mana commander in three colors who does nothing until she attacks or you engineer additional mill triggers, but any graveyard-value shell more than covers that overhead, and Teval, the Balanced Scale decks proved that pairing her with a commander that rewards self-mill is enough to make her a near-staple.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Teval, the Balanced Scale
Teval, the Balanced Scale mills relentlessly as its core game plan, and Sidisi, Brood Tyrant converts every creature that tumbles into the yard into a Zombie token, turning Teval's engine into a board-state engine simultaneously.
The Master, Transcendent
The Master, Transcendent wants a steady stream of expendable creatures to copy and exploit, and Sidisi, Brood Tyrant provides exactly that — Zombie tokens on demand whenever the mill trigger hits a creature.
Muldrotha, the Gravetide
Muldrotha, the Gravetide wants the graveyard stuffed, and Sidisi, Brood Tyrant fills it while building a Zombie army as a side effect — two functions that both serve Muldrotha's core loop at once.
Mimeoplasm, Revered One
Mimeoplasm, Revered One needs large creatures buried quickly to copy, and Sidisi, Brood Tyrant accelerates that pipeline while generating tokens that can be sacrificed or buffed in the interim.
Teval, Arbiter of Virtue
Teval, Arbiter of Virtue rewards life-gain and creature triggers, and Sidisi, Brood Tyrant slots in as a consistent token producer whose mill synergizes with any Sultai graveyard subtheme the deck supports.
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 |
Commander is where Sidisi, Brood Tyrant lives — she's powerful enough as a general to anchor entire archetypes and useful enough as a 99 inclusion to appear across thousands of Sultai and self-mill builds. In Legacy and Vintage she's legal but irrelevant; a four-mana 3/3 that mills three is too slow for formats where the game is often decided by turn two. Modern and Pioneer offer slightly more hospitable ground, but dedicated graveyard decks there have faster, more focused tools, and Sidisi competes poorly on rate. Oathbreaker is the one 60-card format where she could plausibly appear as a signature spell target, but she's not broken enough to warp that format either. The honest read is that she was designed for Commander, plays best in Commander, and you should not expect to see her anywhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.61 cheap tier
At $1.61, Sidisi, Brood Tyrant sits at budget mythic territory — high demand from self-mill and Zombie tribal builders has kept the floor from dropping lower, but widespread reprints have prevented it from climbing. That price is stable; this is a card you pick up for a deck, not one you chase for value.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.