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Polluted Dead

Creature — Zombie4 generic manaBlack mana

Land destruction smuggled into a body, paid out only when the body is already spent. The five-mana 3/3 is a deliberately bad rate, and that is the point: the destruction is back-loaded onto death, so the card never threatens to be a tempo play. You commit a creature to the board, trade it in combat or sacrifice it, and the land falls as a parting gift rather than a proactive strike. That structure belongs to a familiar common-rarity template that bolts a removal rider onto a fragile attacker, where the body buys entry and the death trigger is the actual purchase. Compared to dedicated land destruction, which spends a card to set an opponent back a turn, this asks you to extract value from the creature first and treats the destroyed land as a secondary return on an investment you were making anyway. Death matters here in proportion to how willingly your board feeds it: sacrifice outlets and profitable blocks convert the Zombie from a mediocre beater into a slow grind on the opponent's mana, picking off a land each time it hits the yard. It is a modest, honest design: filler that asks for patience rather than tempo, and pays in attrition rather than disruption.

Polluted Dead (avr)
AVR · #116common
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.39
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature dies, destroy target land.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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