Havengul Skaab
Creature — Zombie Horror
Whenever this creature attacks, return another creature you control to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avacyn Restored
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #28476
Havengul Skaab lands as a 5/5 with hexproof — a genuinely threatening body that blanks most targeted removal — but six mana is a steep ask for a vanilla statline with no enters-the-battlefield effect. It's a fine reanimation target when you're cheating it into play for free; paying full price is rarely correct.
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 |
In Commander, Havengul Skaab earns its slot almost exclusively in Zombie tribal or graveyard-recursion decks that can cheat it into play rather than hard-cast it — at six mana with no immediate impact, paying full price competes badly with the format's available haymakers. Pauper is where the hexproof 5/5 body is most legitimately threatening, since efficient common-legal removal is scarcer and a protected 5/5 can dominate a ground game. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage, Havengul Skaab doesn't see meaningful play — the competition at six mana is simply too fierce and the card offers no enters-the-battlefield value to justify it. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: fine as a reanimation target in the right shell, unplayable if you're casting it fair.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Havengul Skaab is deep bulk — it costs less than a sleeve and should be treated as such. Don't expect the price to move; a hexproof beater with no combo ceiling has nothing to drive demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.