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Deepglow Skate

Creature — Fish

When this creature enters, double the number of each kind of counter on any number of target permanents.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
$4.65
EDHREC rank
#1842
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Deepglow Skate card art
Deepglow Skate enters the battlefield and doubles every counter on every permanent you control — that single trigger can take a planeswalker like Teferi, Master of Time from one loyalty to ultimate range in a single move. Five mana for a 3/3 with no protection is a real cost, but the ceiling on its enters-the-battlefield ability is high enough that most counter-heavy decks, including anything helmed by Commodore Guff, will pay it without hesitation.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Commodore Guff

Commodore Guff

83.0% of decks · synergy 0.75

Commodore Guff runs Deepglow Skate in over 83% of its decks because the combination is effectively a one-card planeswalker ultimate machine — Guff loads the board with loyalty counters, and the Skate's trigger doubles all of them at once, sending multiple walkers into their ultimate activations in a single turn.

02
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

57.4% of decks · synergy 0.56

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus doubles proliferate triggers, so pairing it with Deepglow Skate means entering the battlefield already primes the board, then every subsequent proliferate gets doubled — the counter acceleration becomes compounding rather than linear.

03
Inspirit, Flagship Vessel

Inspirit, Flagship Vessel

55.7% of decks · synergy 0.48

Inspirit, Flagship Vessel accumulates counters across multiple permanent types, and Deepglow Skate's ability to double every counter on every permanent simultaneously makes it a natural fit for any deck that spreads counters wide rather than tall.

04
Kilo, Apogee Mind

Kilo, Apogee Mind

47.7% of decks · synergy 0.40

Kilo, Apogee Mind builds around +1/+1 counters and energy synergies, and Deepglow Skate's blanket doubling applies to both counter types at once — one trigger can represent an enormous swing in both board presence and resource accumulation.

05

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

41.0% of decks · synergy 0.40

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager flips into a planeswalker, and Deepglow Skate can immediately double the loyalty on that freshly transformed Bolas — pushing it toward its ultimate far faster than normal proliferate lines would allow.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Deepglow Skate lives — the format's density of planeswalkers, +1/+1 counters, charge counters, and experience counters gives the enters-the-battlefield trigger a wide surface to land on, and the four-player game state means the payoff is frequently enormous. In Legacy and Vintage, Deepglow Skate is technically legal but sees no meaningful play; those formats have no interest in a five-mana 3/3 whose value is tied entirely to a counter-heavy board state that competitive eternal formats never develop. Oathbreaker is the second real home, since the format is explicitly built around planeswalkers and the Skate's ability to jump a signature spell's planeswalker toward its ultimate is one of the strongest things you can do in that format.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.65 cheap tier

At $4.65, Deepglow Skate sits at the cheap end of the staple spectrum given its power level and the volume of decks that run it. It's a strong buy at this price — demand from counter and planeswalker commanders is consistent, and a card this uniquely positioned rarely stays this accessible.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.