Walking Dead
Creature — Zombie
: Regenerate this creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $1.15
- EDHREC rank
- #28598
Walking Dead is a 2/2 Zombie for two mana with no evasion, no ETB, and no relevant text — a baseline creature that does nothing beyond exist. It has no place in competitive Commander and earns a slot in exactly one context: a dedicated Zombie tribal deck that literally needs bodies to fill the curve.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Walking Dead is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Pauper it competes against commons that generate value the turn they land, and it loses that comparison badly. In Legacy and Vintage the bar is so high that a vanilla 2/2 is noise. Commander is the only format where Walking Dead could theoretically appear, slotted into a Zombie tribal list that wants the creature type more than it wants a functional card — even there, it's the last card into the 99 and the first card cut when anything better is available.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.15 cheap tier
At $1.15, Walking Dead sits in the cheap tier, priced almost entirely by casual collector demand rather than gameplay utility. Don't expect the price to reflect playability — it doesn't.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.