Scarab Feast
Instant
Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.
Cycling (
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #19219
Scarab Feast exiles up to three target cards from a single graveyard at instant speed for one black mana, then cycles itself if the graveyard hate isn't needed right now. That flexibility — selective exile plus built-in card replacement — makes it one of the most efficient pieces of spot graveyard removal available.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Scarab Feast occupies a precise role: one-mana instant-speed graveyard hate that replaces itself when irrelevant, which is exactly the profile you want in a 100-card singleton format where a dedicated hate piece can sit dead for multiple games. In Pauper, the cycling clause is especially valuable since card advantage is at a premium and the graveyard is a live zone in several top strategies. Legacy and Vintage have access to more powerful and more sweeping graveyard answers like Surgical Extraction or Rest in Peace, so Scarab Feast rarely earns a slot there. Modern sits in a similar position — the format's graveyard decks require hitting multiple cards at once, and Surgical Extraction's zero-mana floor is harder to beat. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic closely enough that the same reasoning applies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Scarab Feast is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that genuinely earns its slot in black Commander decks. Bulk one-mana cyclers with relevant effects don't spike, so there's no urgency and no meaningful downside to picking up a copy whenever you see it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.