Lurking Skirge
Enchantment
When a creature is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, if this permanent is an enchantment, it becomes a 3/2 Phyrexian Imp creature with flying.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Urza's Legacy
- Price
- $0.39
- EDHREC rank
- #30268
Lurking Skirge becomes a 3/2 flyer whenever an opponent casts a creature spell — no mana required, just passive pressure that scales with how creature-heavy your table is. The catch is you lose the enchantment once it transforms, so it's a one-time upgrade, not a repeatable trigger.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Lurking Skirge is a fringe inclusion — multiplayer tables flood the board with creature spells, so triggering the transformation is trivial, but a vanilla 3/2 flyer that cost you an enchantment slot rarely justifies a 99-card slot. Legacy and Vintage see no real interest; the format speed makes a conditional beater this slow essentially invisible. The card finds its most defensible home in black enchantress-adjacent Commander builds or decks that care about enchantments entering or leaving play, where the enchantment half has additional upside before it converts.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.39 bulk tier
At $0.39, Lurking Skirge is bulk — you're not buying it for financial reasons, and there's no pressure to pick it up speculatively. Demand is narrow enough that this price is a ceiling as much as a floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.