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Twisted Abomination

Creature — Zombie Mutant

{B}: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

CMC
6
Mana cost
{5}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Masters 25
Price
$0.09
EDHREC rank
#12676
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Twisted Abomination card art
Twisted Abomination is a 5/3 Zombie Skeleton for seven mana — unremarkable on its own — but the real value is the Swampcycle ability, which trades it from your hand for a basic Swamp at the cost of two black mana. It's a land-fetch spell that leaves a beater in your graveyard, and in decks that want both, that double-dipping is worth the slot.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Twisted Abomination earns its seat in Zombie tribal and graveyard-value decks that want a cycling outlet that also sets up the bin — commanders like Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver or The Scarab God appreciate the redundancy. Pauper is where it sees the most competitive daylight, appearing in black control and cycling shells that need cheap ways to fix mana while stocking the graveyard. Legacy and Vintage are too fast for a seven-drop that doesn't win the game, and the cycling cost is too high to compete with format-native cantrips. Outside Pauper and Commander, Twisted Abomination is a bulk rare doing bulk rare things.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.09 bulk tier

At $0.09, Twisted Abomination is deep bulk — you'll find copies in any dollar-bin or bulk lot without effort. That price is stable in both directions: nothing about its demand profile suggests a spike, and it's already at the floor.

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    Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.