Ribskiff
Artifact — Vehicle
Toxic 2 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get two poison counters.)
When this Vehicle enters, draw a card.
Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #15553
Ribskiff puts a 4/3 with menace on the board for two mana, which is an aggressive rate in any format that cares about early pressure. The catch is the crew cost — you need to tap creatures with total power 3 or greater just to swing — so Ribskiff rewards token-wide or power-stacking strategies and punishes everyone else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ribskiff is a fringe pick — the crew requirement is a real cost at a table where you'd rather be developing your board than tapping it sideways to pilot a vehicle. It fits best in aggressive token strategies where you're already drowning in small creatures and need something to punch through blockers, but most of those decks have better two-drops. In constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, Ribskiff competes in aggressive creature shells, though it rarely makes cuts over vehicles with easier crew requirements or higher ceiling. Legacy and Vintage have no room for it. Ribskiff is a limited-format card that occasionally moonlights in low-to-the-ground Commander builds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Ribskiff is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box at the bottom of a trade binder. There's no pressure to buy in or hold copies; if you want one, grab it at that price and don't think twice about it.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.