Welcome the Dead
Welcome the Dead: Sorcery, Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander. Draw two cards, then discard a card and you lose 2 life. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
- Released
- 2025-04-11
- Collector number
- 30
- Artist
- Ioannis Fiore
- Commander rank
- 7,395 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flashback
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About Welcome the Dead
Welcome the Dead is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black sorcery from Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC), a Commander product released in April 2025. It is collector number 30 in that set, with art by Ioannis Fiore. It costs {3}{B} (three generic and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.32 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Draw two cards, then discard a card and you lose 2 life. Create X tapped 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature tokens, where X is the number of cards that were put into your graveyard from your hand or library this turn.
Flashback {5}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.32 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Welcome the Dead by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Welcome the Dead
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) #70 | Rare | 2025 |
Similar cards
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Welcome the Dead is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.