Death Baron
Shards of Alara (ALA) #70 · Rare · Creature — Zombie Wizard
Mana cost: {1}{B}{B}
Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
For the necromancer barons, killing and recruitment are one and the same.
Power/toughness 2/2 · Illustrated by Nils Hamm · Released October 3, 2008
Prices
- Nonfoil: $4.80 USD · €4.02 EUR
- Foil: $15.15 USD · €10.59 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $0.59 USD (14.0%) to $4.80 USD; low $4.21 USD, high $4.80 USD.
Printings
- Foundations Commander #95 (FDC) · Rare · 2026 · $0.79 USD
- Foundations #521 (FDN) · Rare · 2024 · $5.33 USD
- Midnight Hunt Commander #111 (MIC) · Rare · 2021 · $5.06 USD
- Magic Online Promos #69254 (PRM) · Rare · 2018
- Core Set 2019 #90 (M19) · Rare · 2018 · $4.93 USD
- Core Set 2019 Promos #90 (PM19) · Rare · 2018 · $16.01 USD foil
- Core Set 2019 Promos #90p (PM19) · Rare · 2018 · $5.99 USD
- Core Set 2019 Promos #90s (PM19) · Rare · 2018 · $6.76 USD foil
- Planechase #25 (HOP) · Rare · 2009 · $4.57 USD
- Shards of Alara #70 (this printing) · Rare · 2008 · $4.80 USD
Legality
- Standard: Legal
- Alchemy: Legal
- Pioneer: Legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2018-07-13 · wotc — A creature that's both a Skeleton and a Zombie will get the bonus only once.
- 2018-07-13 · wotc — Death Baron doesn't normally affect itself. If you manage to turn it into a Skeleton, however, then it will give itself +1/+1 and deathtouch.
- 2018-07-13 · wotc — Because damage remains marked on a creature until it's removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to a Skeleton or Zombie you control may become lethal if Death Baron leaves the battlefield during that turn.
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