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Umbral Collar Zealot

Creature — Human Cleric

Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Edge of Eternities
Price
$0.40
EDHREC rank
#1703
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Umbral Collar Zealot card art
Umbral Collar Zealot enters the battlefield and immediately generates life gain and sacrifice fodder on the same body, which is exactly the kind of redundancy that engines like Dina, Essence Brewer and Pitiless Plunderer demand. The cost is creature slot competition — you're paying for a role-player, not a haymaker, and it earns its seat only if your deck wants both effects.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Dina, Essence Brewer

Dina, Essence Brewer

60.1% of decks · synergy 0.53

Dina, Essence Brewer drains the table on every life gain trigger, so Umbral Collar Zealot's enter-the-battlefield life bump translates directly into damage — the Zealot is doing work the moment it resolves.

04

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn

47.7% of decks · synergy 0.39

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn scales off life totals and life gain events, making Umbral Collar Zealot a low-cost way to keep those triggers flowing.

05
Gwenom, Remorseless

Gwenom, Remorseless

42.1% of decks · synergy 0.34

Gwenom, Remorseless pushes sacrifice and attrition strategies where Umbral Collar Zealot functions as an efficient on-ramp — a disposable body that pays an entry toll before it goes.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Umbral Collar Zealot actually lives; it's a role-player purpose-built for aristocrats and life-gain synergy shells that need density more than raw power. In eternal formats like Legacy, Modern, and Vintage, it competes against a much higher baseline of efficiency and rarely clears the bar for constructed play. Pioneer and Standard give it a narrower window — if a sacrifice or life-gain synergy deck is viable in that metagame, the Zealot can slot in, but it won't define any list. Pauper is the one format where it's ineligible, so that's off the table entirely.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

6,897 decks
Pitiless PlundererGravecrawlerUmbral Collar Zealot

Pitiless PlundererGravecrawlerUmbral Collar Zealot

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinite surveil; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite colored mana; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens

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4,078 decks
Umbral Collar ZealotGorma, the Gullet

Umbral Collar ZealotGorma, the Gullet

Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite surveil

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2,264 decks
Umbral Collar ZealotCathars' Crusade

Umbral Collar ZealotCathars' Crusade

Infinite surveil; Infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers

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Price Context

Current price

$0.40 bulk tier

At $0.40, Umbral Collar Zealot sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying almost nothing for a card that does genuine work in the right shell. Bulk rares in high-synergy slots tend to stay cheap unless a breakout deck pushes demand, so grab copies for the price of a sleeve and don't overthink it.

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