Wretched Throng

Creature — Zombie Horror

When this creature dies, you may search your library for a card named Wretched Throng, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Innistrad: Crimson Vow
Price
$0.04
EDHREC rank
#28542
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Wretched Throng card art
Wretched Throng puts a pile of Zombie tokens on the board the moment you cast it — the count scales directly with how many Zombies you already control, so a populated board can mean ten or more bodies for seven mana. With Rooftop Storm in play, that cost drops to zero, making this a late-game explosive refill that's genuinely hard to ignore.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Wretched Throng is a Commander card through and through — the token count only gets absurd in a format where Zombie tribal has had four or five turns to accumulate bodies, and the singleton rule pushes Zombie decks toward redundancy that naturally inflates your board before this lands. In Pauper it's technically legal but competes in a faster environment where a seven-mana sorcery that does nothing until you're already ahead rarely earns a slot. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer are too hostile to this kind of top-end payoff — efficient interaction answers it before the tokens matter, and any deck that could support it would rather win outright at that mana investment.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.04 bulk tier

At $0.04, Wretched Throng sits firmly in bulk territory — you're buying it for the effect, not the foil. Bulk rares at this price point tend to stay there unless a format shift or Commander precon reprint pushes them into the spotlight, so pick it up for its role and don't expect the ceiling to move.

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