Walking Desecration
Creature — Zombie
, 
: Creatures of the creature type of your choice attack this turn if able.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #26380
Walking Desecration forces every creature to become a Swamp-walker whenever you pay one black mana, which in a Swamp-heavy deck translates to a repeatable, instant-speed evasion machine for your entire board. Three mana to cast and one black to activate is a real ongoing tax, but the payoff — making a wide zombie or rat army unblockable — closes games.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Walking Desecration is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games give you time to recoup the activation cost repeatedly, and mono-black or heavily black strategies run enough basic Swamps to make the landwalk effect devastating at scale. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but effectively invisible; the formats are too fast and interactive for a three-mana do-nothing-on-entry creature to see play. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where Walking Desecration could theoretically appear in a black aggro shell, but the card sees no meaningful play there either.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Walking Desecration is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard and nothing else. That price is stable in the way all forgotten commons and uncommons are stable: there's no demand pressure to move it, so it'll sit at the floor indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.