First printed in Magic 2010 (2009)
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Creature — Zombie
Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
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: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Every grave cradles a recruit.
2/2
- Illustrated by
- Dave Allsop
Legality
- Legal in
- Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Penny Dreadful, Commander, Duel Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (3)
- Cemetery Reaper grants +1/+1 to all other Zombie creatures you control, not just the ones its ability puts onto the battlefield.
- A "creature card" is any card with the type creature, even if it has other types such as artifact, enchantment, or land. Older cards of type summon are also creature cards.
- The creature card in a graveyard is exiled as part of the activated ability's effect, not as a cost. If that card has left the graveyard by the time the ability would resolve, the ability doesn't resolve and you don't get a Zombie token.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
1 combo:
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite creature ETB…: Cemetery Reaper + Ghoulcaller Gisa + Phyrexian Altar + Thornbite Staff
