Viscera Dragger
Creature — Zombie Ogre Warrior
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Unearth 
(: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #22297
Viscera Dragger is a 4/2 Zombie for four mana with an unearthed cycling effect — the body is unremarkable, but the ability to cycle it for two mana and return it as a temporary threat makes it a value piece in graveyard-centric strategies. It earns a slot when you need cheap graveyard fodder that pulls double duty as a late-game beater.
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 |
In Commander, Viscera Dragger slots into Zombie tribal and reanimator shells that want cheap ways to stock the graveyard while maintaining board presence — commanders like Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver and The Scarab God get real mileage out of the Unearth trigger generating an expendable body. In Pauper, it competes in Zombie aggro lists where the cycling mode smooths draws in the early game and Unearth closes games when opponents are tapped out. Legacy and Vintage have far more powerful options at the same cost, so Viscera Dragger doesn't see play there outside of fringe tribal builds. Across every format where it's legal, the card rewards you most when you're already built around graveyard recursion — in a vacuum it's an underpowered four-drop.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Viscera Dragger is deep bulk — pick it up for essentially nothing as part of any order. It has no realistic path to price appreciation given its power level and reprint availability, so treat it as a free inclusion if it fits your build.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.