Fang Skulkin
Artifact Creature — Scarecrow
: Target black creature gains wither until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Eventide
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #16025
Fang Skulkin lets you pay 2 to give any black creature in your deck wither until end of turn — a repeatable -1/-1 counter engine stapled to a 2/2 artifact body for two mana. The effect is narrow enough that you need a dedicated wither or -1/-1 counter theme to justify the slot, but in that shell it pulls real weight.
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 |
Fang Skulkin is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it only shows up in dedicated -1/-1 counter decks — and those decks are almost exclusively a Commander phenomenon. In Pauper it's a common, so the mana cost is accessible, but the effect is too slow and too narrow to see competitive play there. Fang Skulkin's home is Commander, specifically helmed by a general that rewards stacking -1/-1 counters on opponents' creatures or your own.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Fang Skulkin sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying for the effect, not the cardboard. Bulk commons and uncommons with niche mechanical overlap tend to stay flat, so don't expect movement unless a new -1/-1 counter commander pushes demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.