Skeletal Kathari
Creature — Bird Skeleton
Flying
, Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27699
Skeletal Kathari is a recursive 3/2 flyer that pays for its own comeback with a simple sacrifice cost — solid rate for graveyard and sacrifice synergy decks. The five-mana floor to reanimate it keeps it out of broken territory, but the repeatable loop is the entire point.
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 |
Skeletal Kathari is a bulk common in every non-rotating format, and it shows — competitive Legacy, Vintage, and Modern lists have no interest in a five-mana recursive creature when faster, cheaper threats exist. Pauper is the most plausible home, where the common-only card pool makes a repeatable flying body more meaningful, especially in black sacrifice shells that need fodder. In Commander, Skeletal Kathari finds its niche in Grixis or Jund graveyard builds and sacrifice-matters commanders where the loop generates repeated triggers rather than just board presence.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Skeletal Kathari is deep bulk — buy a playset for a quarter and don't think twice about it. The price will stay flat; there's no scarcity or spike risk on a common with this narrow appeal.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.