Ubul Sar Gatekeepers
Creature — Zombie Soldier
When this creature enters, if you control two or more Gates, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dragon's Maze
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #25077
Ubul Sar Gatekeepers forces an opponent to sacrifice a creature when it enters — but only if you control two or more Gates, making it strictly a Gates-matter card. The floor without that trigger is a vanilla 2/4 for four mana, which is unplayable by any competitive measure.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ubul Sar Gatekeepers is a Pauper-legal common, and that's where it has the most plausible home — specifically in a Gates-focused shell that can reliably trigger the ETB. In Commander, the effect is too conditional and too slow; a four-mana creature that requires two Gates in play to kill a single creature is well below the power bar, even in budget builds. Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage won't touch it — those formats have no Gates synergy infrastructure worth building around, and the card is uncompetitive on rate alone. Oathbreaker has the same problem as Commander at smaller scale.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Ubul Sar Gatekeepers is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a trade binder pocket but rarely fills a deck slot. That price is a ceiling, not a floor; there's no realistic demand driver that would push it higher.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.