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Urborg Shambler

Creature — Horror

Other black creatures get -1/-1.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Invasion
Price
$0.24
EDHREC rank
#28707
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Urborg Shambler card art
Urborg Shambler drains each opponent for 1 life whenever a black creature leaves the battlefield — a passive engine that punishes sacrifice loops and board wipes alike. The cost is a five-mana 2/3 with no evasion, so it only earns its slot where the drain trigger fires repeatedly, most reliably alongside Yedora, Grave Gardener lines that churn black creatures in and out of the graveyard.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Urborg Shambler is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its competitive homes are essentially zero outside of Commander. Legacy and Vintage don't have the patience for a five-mana do-nothing body, and the drain output is far too slow for those formats' kill clocks. In Commander, Urborg Shambler finds its niche in black sacrifice or recursion decks where creatures die in bulk every turn cycle, converting what opponents treat as incidental attrition into a steady life-total clock across three opponents.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.24 bulk tier

At $0.24, Urborg Shambler is pure bulk — pick it up without a second thought if the deck calls for it. It has no meaningful reprint demand or scarcity driving a price increase, so expect it to stay in the quarter bin indefinitely.

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