Underworld Sentinel
Creature — Skeleton Soldier
Whenever this creature attacks, exile target creature card from your graveyard.
When this creature dies, put all cards exiled with it onto the battlefield.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.32
- EDHREC rank
- #15595
Underworld Sentinel turns every attacking creature into a graveyard recursion engine, stacking your hand with creatures simply for doing what an aggressive deck already wants to do. The cost is a three-mana 3/3 with no built-in protection — it dies to any stiff breeze, and the value evaporates the moment it leaves the battlefield.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Underworld Sentinel is a Commander card — full stop. In a 40-life multiplayer game where combat happens every turn and graveyards fill naturally, the trigger fires repeatedly and the value compounds over several attack steps. In Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy, the card is simply too slow and fragile: three mana for a 3/3 with a conditional trigger gets outpaced by turn two in any competitive context, and no established archetype wants it. Commander is the one format where Underworld Sentinel earns consistent play, specifically in creature-heavy decks that attack often and want to recycle threats from the graveyard.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.32 bulk tier
At $0.32, Underworld Sentinel is firmly bulk — easy to pick up in any trade binder or throw into an order as an afterthought. The price is unlikely to climb significantly unless a high-profile Commander deck puts it in the spotlight, so grab it cheap now if the shell fits.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.