Lord of the Undead
Mana cost {1}{B}{B}. Power/toughness 2/2.
Other Zombie creatures get +1/+1.
{1}{B}, {T}: Return target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.
Lord of the Undead is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Planeshift printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€9.08) · TCGplayer ($11.55) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €7.07 and €9.99 in that time.
How often Lord of the Undead is played
Lord of the Undead is maindecked in 5 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (4%), averaging 4.0 copies; used by 1 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 75 decks that can cast black cards, 5 of them play it (7%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Lord of the Undead
- Zombies: Other Zombies get +1/+1, so Carnophage and Sarcomancy tokens attack as 3/3s, and for {1}{B} and a tap it returns a Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand: Cabal Therapy fodder, a killed Shepherd of Rot, or the same Gempalm Polluter to cycle again.
Tournament decks with Lord of the Undead
- Zombies: 2nd Place at Premodern Fight Club (4× mainboard)
- Hatred Zombies: Top 8 at Comix Café (4× mainboard)
- Zombie Tribal: 1st Place at Cloudpost PM 7/26 (4× mainboard)
- zombies: 4th Place at La Parroquia Friday Night (4× mainboard)
- Mono Black: 6th Place at PMPMPMPM XXXVIII (4× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Lord of the Undead
- Darwin's Dead (2×)
