Zombie Cannibal
Creature — Zombie
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may exile target card from that player's graveyard.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #25345
Zombie Cannibal is a one-mana 1/1 that exiles a card from a graveyard when it deals combat damage to a player — functional graveyard hate stapled to a body, but only if it connects. The stat line makes connecting unreliable past the earliest turns, so the effect rarely fires when it matters most.
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 |
In Commander, Zombie Cannibal is a fringe tribal inclusion — it counts as a Zombie for lords and synergy pieces, but one instance of conditional graveyard exile on a 1/1 is too slow and too unreliable to serve as meaningful hate in a four-player game. Pauper is where the card has seen the most scrutiny: one-mana Zombies with any upside get looked at in tribal shells, but Zombie Cannibal's damage trigger is too difficult to engineer consistently against competent opponents. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the card's ceiling doesn't come close to the power floor of those formats.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Zombie Cannibal is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not effect. It won't appreciate; tribal filler at this power level has no meaningful demand driver.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.