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Veilborn Ghoul

Creature — Zombie4 generic manaBlack mana

Recursion priced into the land drop: every Swamp you play after this hits the bin buys it back, so the card asks nothing but a mono-black manabase to keep refilling your hand. That trade is paid for twice over. The body is a 4/1 that can't block, an attacker only, glass on defense and fragile to anything that pings; and the return is a may-trigger keyed to a single mundane event, not a free recursion engine. What it builds is a steady stream of expendable bodies for decks that want them: graveyard fodder for delve and exploit, food for sacrifice outlets, a reusable beater you don't mind throwing under a removal spell because it comes home next turn. The Swamp clause is the discipline here, tying the loop to a resource you spend anyway rather than a mana cost you'd pay to abuse it, which keeps a four-power recursive attacker from running away. This sits with the other self-returning black creatures that treat the graveyard as a holding pen, and it pulls that off without an activation, an exile clause, or a life payment: just the natural rhythm of dropping lands across a long game.

Veilborn Ghoul (m13)
M13 · #114uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.39
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't block. Whenever a Swamp you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
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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