Scarblade Elite
Creature — Elf Assassin
, Exile an Assassin card from your graveyard: Destroy target creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Morningtide
- Price
- $3.06
- EDHREC rank
- #16125
Scarblade Elite threatens to kill any creature on the board for free the moment you have three Assassins in your graveyard — a ceiling that towers over most two-drops. The cost is setup: it does nothing until your graveyard and creature type count align, which makes it a liability in the early game and a house in the mid-to-late game. Ramses, Assassin Lord fills the graveyard fast enough that the condition stops being a question mark.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ramses, Assassin Lord
Ramses, Assassin Lord is the natural home — his triggered ability dumps Assassins into the graveyard as a matter of course, meaning Scarblade Elite hits its activation threshold without any extra engineering.
Etrata, Deadly Fugitive
Etrata, Deadly Fugitive leans into Assassin tribal deep enough that Scarblade Elite earns a slot as a repeatable removal engine, especially once Etrata's blinking and cloning lines start filling the graveyard with type-matched bodies.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Scarblade Elite actually lives — Assassin tribal has enough critical mass there to reliably hit three in the yard, and the ability to repeatedly destroy any target creature at zero mana cost is backbreaking at a 100-card table. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is legal but irrelevant: those formats don't support the Assassin density required, and two-drops that need graveyard setup can't compete with the raw power available. Modern is the same story — the payoff is real, but no Assassin shell exists to support it. Scarblade Elite is a Commander card through and through, built for the one format that lets you surround it with the pieces it needs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.06 cheap tier
At $3.06, Scarblade Elite sits in the cheap tier — affordable enough to include without a second thought in any Assassin tribal build. Its price is driven almost entirely by Commander demand from Ramses and Etrata lists, so it's stable as long as those commanders stay popular.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ramses, Assassin Lord
- Etrata, Deadly Fugitive
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.