Armored Skaab
Creature — Zombie Warrior
When this creature enters, mill four cards.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #21505
Armored Skaab mills four cards on entry and leaves behind a 1/4 body that blocks well — for two mana, that's a real rate in any deck that wants cards in the graveyard. It does nothing if you don't have a graveyard theme, but in the decks that do, it pulls double duty from turn two onward.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Armored Skaab is a Pauper staple in self-mill and graveyard-value shells, where milling four on a 1/4 frame for two mana is exactly what those decks want. In Commander, it fits Gisa and Geralf, Phenax, God of Deception, or any Dimir/Sultai graveyard commander that treats the mill as fuel rather than incidental — but it competes with more powerful self-mill options at higher budgets. Legacy and Vintage have no interest; the card is too slow for those formats' graveyard engines. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: useful only when the spellbook or planeswalker explicitly rewards self-mill.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Armored Skaab is pure bulk — it costs less than a sleeve. The price reflects wide print availability and narrow demand, so it won't appreciate, but you're not buying it to hold value; you're buying a playset for under half a dollar because it's the right tool for the job.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.