Ulamog's Despoiler is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon colourless creature from Battle for Zendikar (BFZ), an expansion set released in October 2015. It is collector number 16 in that set, with art by Peter Mohrbacher. It costs {6} (six generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 5/5 creature. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Battle for Zendikar is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.19 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).
Card text
As this creature enters, you may put two cards your opponents own from exile into their owners' graveyards. If you do, this creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.19 (as of 2026-11-11).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Ulamog's Despoiler by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
Four official rulings apply to Ulamog's Despoiler, newest first.
If a replacement effect will cause cards that would be put into a graveyard from anywhere to be exiled instead (such as the one created by Anafenza, the Foremost), you can still put an exiled card into its opponent’s graveyard. The card becomes a new object and remains in exile. In this situation, you can’t use a single exiled card if required to put more than one exiled card into the graveyard. Conversely, you could use the same card in this situation if two separate spells or abilities each required you to put a single exiled card into its owner’s graveyard.
If a spell or ability requires that you put more than one exiled card into the graveyard, you may choose cards owned by different opponents. Each card chosen will be put into its owner’s graveyard.
Face-down cards in exile are grouped using two criteria: what caused them to be exiled face down and when they were exiled face down. If you want to put a face-down card in exile into its owner’s graveyard, you must first choose one of these groups and then choose a card from within that group at random. For example, say an artifact causes your opponent to exile their hand of three cards face down. Then on a later turn, that artifact causes your opponent to exile another two cards face down. If you use Wasteland Strangler to put one of those cards into their graveyard, you would pick the first or second pile and put a card chosen at random from that pile into the graveyard.
You can’t look at face-down cards in exile unless an effect allows you to.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.