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Moss-Pit Skeleton

Creature — Plant Skeleton

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.)
If this creature was kicked, it enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a creature you control, if this card is in your graveyard, you may put this card on top of your library.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{B}{G}
Color identity
BG
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Zendikar Rising
Price
$0.11
EDHREC rank
#20224
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Moss-Pit Skeleton card art
Moss-Pit Skeleton gives you a recursive threat that keeps coming back from the graveyard as long as you can feed it creatures — the cost is that the engine requires a steady discard or mill stream to stay online. It fills the same loam-creature niche as Snarling Gorehound but trades speed for persistence, making it a reliable grind piece rather than a burst payoff.

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

Commander is where Moss-Pit Skeleton earns its slot, specifically in graveyard-centric builds that generate surplus creatures in the bin through self-mill, sacrifice loops, or mass discard. In Modern and Pioneer it's too slow and too conditional — graveyard decks there want payoffs that close games, not ones that trickle back one body at a time. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power density to make recursive two-drops feel irrelevant. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: it works if your signature spell fuels the yard, otherwise cut it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.11 bulk tier

At $0.11, Moss-Pit Skeleton is pure bulk — you're picking up a playset for less than a dollar, so there's no financial barrier to testing it. Bulk graveyard creatures rarely spike unless a new commander breaks the archetype wide open, so treat this as a free include, not a hold.

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