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Zodiark, Umbral God

Legendary Creature — God

Indestructible
When Zodiark enters, each player sacrifices half the non-God creatures they control of their choice, rounded down.
Whenever a player sacrifices another creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Zodiark.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{B}{B}{B}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Final Fantasy
Price
$1.98
EDHREC rank
#5152
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Zodiark, Umbral God card art
Zodiark, Umbral God lands on the battlefield and immediately starts generating value — pairing with Animation Module to create a self-sustaining loop of counters and tokens that snowballs fast. The cost is real: you're building around a card that wants dedicated support, and Vincent Valentine decks are the natural home precisely because they're already set up to exploit that engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Vincent Valentine

51.4% of decks · synergy 0.44

Vincent Valentine runs Zodiark, Umbral God in over half its decks because Zodiark's counter-and-token generation maps directly onto the transformation and proliferate lines Vincent wants to accelerate.

02

Zenos yae Galvus

36.8% of decks · synergy 0.29

Zenos yae Galvus pairs with Zodiark, Umbral God because the combat-oriented threat density Zenos demands slots Zodiark in as a self-scaling body that keeps pumping resources into the board.

03

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER

34.7% of decks · synergy 0.27

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER includes Zodiark, Umbral God in roughly a third of its builds, using Zodiark's repeatable output to fuel the crescendo of power Sephiroth needs to close games.

04

Emet-Selch, Unsundered

21.6% of decks · synergy 0.21

Emet-Selch, Unsundered reaches for Zodiark, Umbral God because the soul-counting and graveyard recursion themes Emet-Selch runs dovetail with Zodiark's ability to continuously add to the board state.

05
Sephiroth, Planet's Heir

Sephiroth, Planet's Heir

12.1% of decks · synergy 0.11

Sephiroth, Planet's Heir uses Zodiark, Umbral God as a consistent threat multiplier, letting the deck sustain momentum through the mid-game while Sephiroth sets up its finishing conditions.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Zodiark, Umbral God is built to live — the 100-card singleton environment gives it enough time to establish the engine it wants, and the multiplayer threat density means opponents have to respect a card that scales on its own. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, Zodiark faces a speed problem: the formats move faster than a mid-range value engine can keep pace with, and it won't find a home outside of niche brews. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal but offer no meaningful reason to run it when the power ceiling is so much higher elsewhere. Standard is its only 60-card format with a realistic shelf life, where a slower meta could let it breathe, but it lives and dies by whether the rotation leaves its support cards intact.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.98 cheap tier

At $1.98, Zodiark, Umbral God sits in the cheap tier — low enough that including it is a no-brainer if the strategy fits, and the price reflects broad demand from the Final Fantasy release rather than any signs of spiking. Given how many Vincent Valentine and Sephiroth decks are actively running it, don't expect the floor to drop much.

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