Tomb Tyrant
Creature — Zombie Noble
Other Zombies you control get +1/+1.
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, Sacrifice a creature: Return a Zombie creature card at random from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your turn and only if there are at least three Zombie creature cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #5033
Tomb Tyrant turns every Zombie token your opponents control into a card in your graveyard, and in a format where Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver is one of the most-built commanders on the planet, that trigger fires constantly. Five mana is a real cost, but the payoff — a self-filling graveyard that feeds recursion engines — justifies the slot in any dedicated Zombie build.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver generates a Decayed Zombie token every time a non-Decayed Zombie dies, and those tokens die to the Decayed trigger at end of combat — meaning Tomb Tyrant mills you on a loop every turn cycle, loading the graveyard for whatever recursion engine Wilhelt is running.
Ghoulcaller Gisa
Ghoulcaller Gisa mass-produces Zombie tokens by sacrificing creatures, and Tomb Tyrant converts that constant token generation — including your opponents' boards — into graveyard fuel, setting up the next wave of Gisa activations.
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord cares deeply about Zombie counts and graveyard density, and Tomb Tyrant feeds both axes simultaneously — every opposing Zombie token that enters a graveyard deepens the pile Zul Ashur wants to exploit.
Gisa, the Hellraiser
Gisa, the Hellraiser swarms the board with Zombie tokens on combat damage, and Tomb Tyrant ensures those tokens — plus any the table is generating — translate into graveyard cards that the deck can cash in later.
The Scarab God
The Scarab God drains opponents equal to the number of Zombies in all graveyards at upkeep, so Tomb Tyrant milling cards from opponents' libraries directly inflates that drain count while providing raw material for The Scarab God's reanimation ability.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is by far the best home for Tomb Tyrant — multiplayer tables multiply the trigger, and Zombie tribal is one of the most-supported archetypes in the format. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but competes against much faster strategies where a five-mana creature without an immediate board-stabilizing effect rarely makes the cut. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer texture, so Tomb Tyrant is at least playable there in a Zombie shell, though the smaller deck size and faster pace trim its ceiling.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Tomb Tyrant isn't available at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate. Given its 46% inclusion rate in Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver decks, demand is real, so don't sleep on picking up a copy if you find it at a reasonable price.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.