Undertaker
Creature — Human Spellshaper
, 
, Discard a card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- special
- Set
- Time Spiral Timeshifted
- Price
- $0.32
- EDHREC rank
- #11066
Undertaker turns a creature in hand into a creature from your graveyard — a repeatable swap that generates serious value in any deck that wants bodies in the bin. The cost is real: you discard first, so you need a stocked hand and a stocked yard, but Fauna Shaman proves that tap-to-discard-a-creature is a busted effect when the deck is built around it. Hashaton, Scarab's Fist decks are the clearest modern home, using Undertaker as a recursion engine that also feeds the graveyard it's pulling from.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist cares about creatures dying and being recurred, and Undertaker slots directly into that loop — discard a creature to get one back, and every creature that touched the yard is another trigger waiting to happen.
Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer
Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer triggers off cards discarded from hand, so Undertaker's discard cost becomes a free Oskar trigger every activation — you're not paying a cost so much as drawing a card while also recovering a creature from the bin.
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 |
Commander is where Undertaker earns its keep — 99-card decks built around graveyard synergies give it the critical mass of creatures needed to make the discard cost feel free rather than punishing. In Pauper, it's legal and sees occasional play in graveyard-centric brews where common-slot recursion is scarce, though it's not a staple. Legacy and Vintage have access to it, but neither format wants a one-mana 1/1 that taps and asks you to discard when faster, unconditional recursion exists. Pioneer and Standard can't run it, but that's not a meaningful loss for either format.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Fauna ShamanTimestream NavigatorUndertaker
Infinite turns; Skip your draw steps; Lock
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.32 bulk tier
At $0.32, Undertaker is bulk — pick it up without thinking about it. Bulk commons and uncommons with narrow homes rarely spike, so don't expect the price to move unless a new graveyard commander drives sudden demand.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.