Insatiable Skittermaw
Creature — Insect Horror
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Void — At the beginning of your end step, if a nonland permanent left the battlefield this turn or a spell was warped this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Edge of Eternities
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #17160
Insatiable Skittermaw hits the board and immediately starts generating value through its ward-adjacent tax and creature-eating recursion loop — the impact is real from the moment it resolves. Fumulus, the Infestation is the obvious home, but any deck that wants a self-replacing threat at a reasonable mana cost has a reason to look here.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Fumulus, the Infestation
Fumulus, the Infestation wants every piece of the Insatiable Skittermaw engine it can find — the card feeds the infestation count, recurs itself through the sacrifice loop, and turns Fumulus's token generation into a persistent pressure machine that's hard to race.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Insatiable Skittermaw earns its slot in graveyard-adjacent and sacrifice-matters shells where the recursion loop compounds over a long game. Competitive 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Standard — have faster, more redundant threats that do the same job on a tighter axis, so it won't make those cuts outside of a dedicated grind deck. Pauper is the one 60-card format worth watching: if the recursion cost is cheap enough relative to the format's removal density, Insatiable Skittermaw could find a niche as a grindy threat that punishes reactive decks.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Insatiable Skittermaw is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a dollar box or ordering a playset for pocket change. Bulk rares from recent sets rarely climb unless they break a format, and nothing in Skittermaw's current play pattern suggests that's coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Fumulus, the Infestation
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.