Gempalm Polluter
Mana cost {5}{B}. Power/toughness 4/3.
Cycling {B}{B} ({B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, you may have target player lose life equal to the number of Zombies on the battlefield.
Gempalm Polluter is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Legions printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€0.27) · TCGplayer ($0.31) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €0.25 and €0.52 in that time.
How often Gempalm Polluter is played
Gempalm Polluter is maindecked in 4 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (3%), averaging 3.0 copies; used by 1 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 75 decks that can cast black cards, 4 of them play it (5%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Gempalm Polluter
- Zombies: Rarely cast for six mana. For {B}{B} it cycles and makes a player lose one life per Zombie on the battlefield, at instant speed and past any blocker, though it targets, so Solitary Confinement stops it. Lord of the Undead returns it to hand, so the same card can finish a game twice. Undead Warchief makes it cost five to hard-cast and turns it into a 6/4.
Tournament decks with Gempalm Polluter
- Zombies: 2nd Place at Premodern Fight Club (2× mainboard)
- Hatred Zombies: Top 8 at Comix Café (3× mainboard)
- Zombie Tribal: 1st Place at Cloudpost PM 7/26 (4× mainboard)
- zombies: 4th Place at La Parroquia Friday Night (3× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Gempalm Polluter
- Deadapult (3×)
