Headless Skaab
Creature — Zombie Warrior
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard.
This creature enters tapped.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dark Ascension
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #27827
Headless Skaab is a 3/1 zombie for two mana — above-rate stats that come with a real cost: you exile the top card of your library as you cast it, and it enters tapped. Outside of self-mill strategies that don't care about library order, that exile clause is a punishing tax that makes Headless Skaab a niche role-player rather than a generic aggro piece.
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 |
Headless Skaab sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern, where the exile-a-card cost is simply too steep against efficient interaction and the 3/1 body doesn't move the needle. In Pauper, it's legal but unplayed — zombie tribal lacks the critical mass to make it worthwhile, and better common zombies exist. Commander is where it finds its only real home, specifically in self-mill or graveyard-value decks led by commanders like Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver or Gisa and Geralf, where the exile clause either doesn't matter or can be mitigated with library recursion. Even there, Headless Skaab competes with zombies that generate more value on entry, so it tends to appear only in lists pushing for maximum tribal density.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Headless Skaab is deep bulk — you're buying it out of a common bin, not paying shipping for a single copy. That price reflects its narrow demand accurately; there's no realistic scenario where this card appreciates, so grab it when you're already placing an order and need the final slot in a zombie tribal list.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.