Vesper Ghoul
Creature — Zombie Druid
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Salvat 2005
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #20385
Vesper Ghoul trades life for colored mana, functioning as a repeatable Fellwar Stone stapled to a 1/1 body — the cost is real, but so is the fixing. In Commander, where life totals start at 40 and multicolor mana bases punish stumbling, that exchange is almost always correct.
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 Vesper Ghoul makes the most sense: 40 life gives you room to pay the activation repeatedly without racing toward death, and the format's multicolor commanders make reliable off-color fixing genuinely valuable. In Pauper, where the card is legal, the life payment is a steeper proposition against aggressive decks, and dedicated fixing at common is already crowded — Vesper Ghoul rarely earns a slot there. Legacy and Vintage have the raw card quality to make it irrelevant; no one is tapping a 1/1 for mana when Mox and sol-land effects exist. Stick to Commander.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Vesper Ghoul isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given its narrow Commander appeal and common-level functionality, expect it to sit in bulk or near-bulk range — worth picking up if you need it, not worth hunting.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.