Underworld Charger
Creature — Nightmare Horse
This creature can't block.
Escape—
, Exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
This creature escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #24791
Underworld Charger puts a 3/3 trampler on the board with escape, meaning your graveyard fuels a recurring threat that's surprisingly hard to permanently answer. The five-card exile cost is steep, but in any deck that fills the bin fast, you're rarely paying it more than twice.
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 |
Commander is where Underworld Charger earns its keep — self-mill and graveyard-synergy commanders like Sidisi, Brood Tyrant or Gyruda, Doom of Depths generate the escape fuel freely, and a repeatable 3/3 trampler that comes back from the yard is exactly the kind of recursive pressure grindy black-green decks want. In Pauper it's a legitimate threat; escape creatures at common are rare, and a trampling body that dodges most graveyard hate through sheer redundancy sees occasional play in Tortured Existence shells. Underworld Charger doesn't crack competitive lists in Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, or Vintage — the power ceiling is too low for formats where the bar for a five-mana creature is "win the game."
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Underworld Charger is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card itself. Bulk rares with niche graveyard applications don't typically climb, so pick it up for a dime and don't expect the price to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.