Card
Dread Slaver
Mana cost {3}{B}{B}
Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, return it to the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 32 known combos. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · AVR · #98
- Cheapest printing
- €0.14
- EDHREC salt
- 0.36
- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
32 known combos.
- Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats + Dread Slaver + Warstorm Surge
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Be'lakor, the Dark Master + Dread Slaver + Conspiracy + Ashnod's Altar
Produces: Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Be'lakor, the Dark Master + Dread Slaver + Arcane Adaptation + Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2012-05-01 · Wizards of the Coast
The card will return to the battlefield under your control only if it's still in the graveyard when the ability resolves. If it's not (perhaps because an ability like undying has already returned it to the battlefield), nothing happens. - 2012-05-01 · Wizards of the Coast
If Dread Slaver and a creature it was blocking or blocked by both die in combat, Dread Slaver's ability will trigger. - 2012-05-01 · Wizards of the Coast
Dread Slaver will return if it somehow dealt damage to itself and then dies. - 2012-05-01 · Wizards of the Coast
Each time a creature dies, check whether Dread Slaver had dealt any damage to it at any time during that turn. If so, Dread Slaver's ability will trigger. It doesn't matter who controlled the creature or whose graveyard it was put into.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast