Armored Scrapgorger
Creature — Phyrexian Beast
This creature gets +3/+0 as long as it has three or more oil counters on it.
: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, exile target card from a graveyard and put an oil counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.32
- EDHREC rank
- #4378
Armored Scrapgorger is a two-mana 2/2 that eats artifacts from graveyards and converts them into mana — graveyard hate that accelerates you rather than just denying opponents. In Slinza, the Spiked Stampede and similar Gruul-adjacent lists, that combination of body, disruption, and ramp on one card earns its slot every time.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Slinza, the Spiked Stampede
Slinza, the Spiked Stampede cares about creatures with activated abilities, and Armored Scrapgorger's exile-for-mana ability fits that axis while keeping artifact-heavy opponents in check — nearly half of all Slinza lists run it for exactly that reason.
Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss
Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss rewards creatures whose activated abilities produce mana, and Armored Scrapgorger qualifies cleanly — it pumps in combat under Raggadragga while its ability fuels the mana-creature synergy the deck is built around.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Armored Scrapgorger fills a specific and undervalued niche: incidental graveyard disruption on a body that also ramps, which means it never sits dead in hand the way a dedicated hate piece might. Artifact recursion strategies and Dockside Extortionist loops are common enough at most tables that having a two-mana answer stapled to a mana source is genuinely useful. In Modern and Legacy, the card is legal but faces stiffer competition from dedicated hate pieces and more efficient mana dorks, so it rarely makes the cut outside of highly specific brews. Pioneer players have access to it as well, though the same logic applies — the format has better options for either role in isolation.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.32 bulk tier
At $0.32, Armored Scrapgorger is firmly bulk, and that price is likely to hold — it's a common with narrow enough appeal that no spike is coming, but its utility in Commander keeps it in steady demand rather than bottoming out entirely.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.