Lord of the Undead
Ninth Edition 143★ • rare
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Collector number
- 143★
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana black mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Brom
- Finish
- Foil
What it does
Other Zombie creatures get +1/+1.
1 generic mana black mana, tap: Return target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.
"I confer with Death itself. What could you possibly do to injure me?"
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Lord of the Undead was first printed in the Stronghold expansion in 1998, designed to bolster the tribal synergy of Zombie-themed decks by providing both a passive power boost and a functional recursion ability. The Ninth Edition printing, released in 2005, served as the card's debut in a base set, maintaining its role as a core fixture for black-aligned strategies during a period when Wizards of the Coast was actively streamlining the game's core rules and aesthetics.
The artwork for this particular version was rendered by Kev Walker, a prolific illustrator whose dark, visceral style became synonymous with the game's horror-adjacent motifs during the early 2000s. Walker's design for the Lord emphasized an imposing, skeletal necromancer aesthetic, which was received by players as a definitive representation of the creature type. The Ninth Edition printing is distinguished by its white expansion set symbol and the modern card frame introduced during the Eighth Edition transition.
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