MagicTheGathering.fyi

Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Merfolk Wizard

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded an instant or sorcery card this way, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{2}, Sacrifice Vohar: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only as a sorcery.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{U}{B}
Color identity
BU
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Dominaria United
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3846
Buy on TCGplayer
Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator card art
Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator gives you a repeatable loot effect stapled to a recursive threat — pay two mana, discard a card, draw a card, and if it dies, the background Haunted One can bring it back for another round. The cost is that the looting requires tapping and spending mana each turn, so it competes with everything else you want to do; in a deck like Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer where every discard fuels the engine, that cost vanishes entirely.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer

81.1% of decks · synergy 0.77

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer turns every discard from Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator into a free cast off the top of the graveyard, making the loot effect a two-for-one engine rather than a straight card swap — that 81% inclusion rate is no accident.

02

Rona, Herald of Invasion

45.0% of decks · synergy 0.41

Rona, Herald of Invasion rewards you for playing legendary spells and untaps herself when you do; Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator is a legendary creature that slots into that legendary-matters shell while providing the looting Rona decks want to cycle through to their combo pieces.

03

Emet-Selch, Unsundered

36.8% of decks · synergy 0.33

Emet-Selch, Unsundered cares about filling the graveyard with high-cost permanents to exile and cast for free, and Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator feeds that graveyard consistently while being a recursive body that keeps coming back as a discard outlet.

04
Gale, Waterdeep ProdigyScion of Halaster

Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy // Scion of Halaster

34.6% of decks · synergy 0.31

Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy // Scion of Halaster wants instants and sorceries hitting the graveyard to copy and recur; Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator provides a steady loot engine that stocks the graveyard every turn while surviving removal via its built-in recursion.

05
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

33.7% of decks · synergy 0.30

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist cares about milling and graveyard density, and Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator functions as an on-demand discard outlet that fuels that self-mill gameplan while staying resilient on the battlefield.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator does its best work — graveyard-based strategies are everywhere in the format, and a recursive legendary that loots every turn slots into Dimir and Grixis builds with almost zero friction. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but far too slow; neither format has space for a three-mana creature that taps to loot when Brainstorm and Ponder exist. Modern and Pioneer are similarly unkind — the effect isn't powerful enough for the speed of those formats, and the recursion condition is too conditional to matter. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where it could see play, specifically in a signature-spell shell that wants repeated graveyard interaction.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator isn't currently available through our sources, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its niche role as a value piece in specific graveyard commanders rather than a universal staple, it tends to sit in budget territory — likely an easy pickup if you're building Oskar or a similar shell.

Explore

Sources

Mentioned

← All cards

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