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Gnarled Scarhide

Enchantment Creature — Minotaur

Bestow {3}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
This creature can't block.
Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and can't block.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Journey into Nyx
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#18340
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Gnarled Scarhide card art
Gnarled Scarhide is a 2/1 for one black mana with bestow — a clean aggressive body that doubles as a +2/+1 aura when you need a threat that survives removal. The cost is the nonbo on its bestow clause: enchanting an opponent's creature and tapping it is a cute trick, but in practice you're running Gnarled Scarhide in Sethron, Hurloon General decks because it's a Minotaur that adds a red token trigger, not because of that escape valve.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Sethron, Hurloon General

Sethron, Hurloon General

55.7% of decks · synergy 0.55

Gnarled Scarhide is a one-drop Minotaur, and every non-Human Minotaur that enters triggers Sethron, Hurloon General's token-creation ability — so this card is essentially a one-mana 2/1 that immediately starts the Sethron engine and contributes to the critical mass of Minotaurs needed to keep tokens flowing.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Gnarled Scarhide is a role-player in Sethron, Hurloon General tribal lists and almost nowhere else — the Minotaur type is what earns the slot, not the stats. In competitive 1v1 formats like Legacy, Pioneer, and Modern, aggressive black one-drops compete with premier options at the same cost, and Gnarled Scarhide's 2/1 body with bestow upside puts it on the fringe of Minotaur tribal builds rather than mainstream aggro shells. It sees no Pauper play — it's not legal there — and Standard rotation has also left it behind.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Gnarled Scarhide is deep bulk — the floor of the market for a card with a narrow tribal niche. Picking up copies is trivial, and there's no meaningful price pressure to watch for unless a Minotaur-focused precon or reprint set dramatically spikes the archetype's profile.

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