Ashiok's Skulker
Creature — Nightmare
: This creature can't be blocked this turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- War of the Spark
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #27169
Ashiok's Skulker is a five-mana 3/3 that makes itself unblockable when you're holding a full grip — a condition that's inconsistent enough to make the body embarrassing for the cost. There are better evasion payoffs at every price point, and this one rarely earns its slot.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ashiok's Skulker is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, mill and hand-size strategies exist, but a five-mana 3/3 with conditional evasion can't compete with the format's power level — you're not winning a 100-card game on the back of this. In Pauper, where every mana and every body gets scrutinized, the evasion condition is too unreliable to justify the cost over straightforward aggressive commons. Across every other format, Ashiok's Skulker simply doesn't have a competitive niche.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Ashiok's Skulker is pure bulk — the market is pricing it exactly as playable as it is. Don't expect that to change; bulk commons with narrow conditions don't recover value without a dramatic rules shift or reprint into a pushed archetype.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.