Dross Scorpion
Artifact Creature — Scorpion
Whenever this creature or another artifact creature dies, you may untap target artifact.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #10189
Dross Scorpion untaps an artifact whenever another artifact you control dies — and in the right shell, that single trigger is the engine that makes the whole machine run. Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter is the premier home: the loop between Jansen's token-sacrificing ability and Dross Scorpion's untap trigger is what turns a pile of artifacts into infinite mana or infinite death triggers.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter
Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter sacrifices Treasure and Construct tokens to fuel his own activated abilities, and Dross Scorpion untapping him after each sacrifice is what collapses a finite loop into an infinite one — nearly 40% of Jansen decks on EDHREC run it for exactly that reason.
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 |
Dross Scorpion is a Commander card, full stop. The combo density required to make a four-mana 3/3 with a conditional untap trigger worth a slot only exists in the 100-card singleton format, where Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter and similar artifact-sacrifice commanders are handing it a guaranteed role. In Legacy, Vintage, and Pauper it's technically legal but practically irrelevant — those formats move faster and have no interest in a creature this slow and this conditional. Pauper artifact synergy decks occasionally explore redundant untap effects, but Dross Scorpion's four-mana price tag is a hard sell when cheaper options exist.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Jan Jansen, Chaos CrafterDross ScorpionSkullclampLiquimetal Torque
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB
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Venser, Corpse PuppetThrone of GethDross Scorpion
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite proliferate; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Jan Jansen, Chaos CrafterDross ScorpionSkullclampLiquimetal Coating
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB
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Jan Jansen, Chaos CrafterDross ScorpionLiquimetal TorqueGoblin Bombardment
Infinite damage; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite tapped creature tokens; Infinite tapped Treasure tokens
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Dross ScorpionMyr TurbineKrark-Clan Ironworks
Infinite colorless mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Dross Scorpion is deep bulk — a combo piece priced like a throwaway common despite doing real work in artifact-sacrifice decks. That price is stable; it sees just enough Commander demand to keep it from hitting true bulk boxes, but not enough to push it past a dollar.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.