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Veilborn Ghoul

Creature — Zombie

This creature can't block.
Whenever a Swamp you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Magic 2013
Price
$0.10
EDHREC rank
#24276
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Veilborn Ghoul card art
Veilborn Ghoul returns from your graveyard to your hand every time you play a Swamp — free recursion stapled to a 5/4 body is the whole pitch. The cost is that you need untapped Swamps hitting the battlefield consistently, which makes it a build-around rather than a plug-and-play include; Floral Evoker exists as a combo enabler precisely because Veilborn Ghoul rewards repeated land drops.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Veilborn Ghoul is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only sees meaningful play in Commander. Legacy and Modern have no interest in a five-mana 5/4 with conditional recursion when those formats demand interaction and velocity from turn one. In Commander, Veilborn Ghoul belongs in Swamp-heavy black decks that generate multiple land drops per turn — Gitrog Monster and similar land-centric strategies can loop it repeatedly in a single turn cycle.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.10 bulk tier

At $0.10, Veilborn Ghoul is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Bulk rares with niche combo applications rarely climb unless a new commander breaks them wide open, so don't expect appreciation; just pick up copies for the decks that want them.

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