Silent-Chant Zubera
Creature — Zubera Spirit
When this creature dies, you gain 2 life for each Zubera that died this turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #27874
Silent-Chant Zubera gains you 2 life when it dies — or more if multiple Zubera died that turn — and that's the entirety of what it does. A two-mana 1/2 with a conditional lifegain trigger is below the floor for Constructed play in any format where other options exist.
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 |
Silent-Chant Zubera is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Commander, the Zubera tribe has a niche recursion-and-sacrifice shell — usually helmed by something like Teysa Karlov or a dedicated spirit tribal commander — where stacking multiple Zubera deaths in one turn scales the lifegain into something meaningful. In Pauper, it occasionally shows up in common-only sacrifice or spirit synergy brews, where the low bar for creature quality is easier to clear. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage have zero interest in a 1/2 that gains 2 life.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Silent-Chant Zubera is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a commons box rather than buy. Demand is narrow enough that the price has no pressure to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.