Zombie Cutthroat
Creature — Zombie
Morph—Pay 5 life. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #29505
Zombie Cutthroat is a 3/4 body that can enter the battlefield for free if you pitch a card from your hand, making it a genuine threat at zero mana in the right graveyard-centric shell. The catch is that the morph-style payment requires discarding, so it rewards decks that want cards in the graveyard rather than punishing them for it.
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 Cutthroat is a niche roleplayer — it fits Zombie tribal and self-mill strategies that treat the discard as upside, but it rarely makes the cut outside those archetypes because a vanilla 3/4 doesn't justify a roster slot. In Pauper, the free-cast condition is more interesting since efficient bodies matter and resource parity is tight, though the card still competes with better common threats. Legacy and Vintage have no real interest in it — the effect doesn't approach the power level either format demands. Zombie Cutthroat is essentially a Commander card that happens to be legal elsewhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Zombie Cutthroat is deep bulk — grab it out of a common box or as a throw-in. There's no meaningful price floor to speak of, and it won't appreciate unless a future Zombie tribal printing spikes the whole tribe, which isn't something to count on.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.