Scarblade Scout
Creature — Elf Scout
Lifelink
When this creature enters, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #15114
Scarblade Scout enters the battlefield and immediately deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker — a free ping stapled to a 1/1 body for one mana. The effect is narrow and the body is negligible, so you're running this only in dedicated Assassin-tribal or enter-the-battlefield damage-accumulation builds.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Scarblade Scout is legal across every major format, but that breadth doesn't translate to relevance. In Commander, the 1-damage trigger is too small to matter at a 40-life table unless you're stacking dozens of similar effects or combo-ing with damage doublers. In 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Standard — a 1/1 for one with a minor ping doesn't clear the bar for competitive play when aggressive one-drops offer far more pressure. Pauper is the only format where Scarblade Scout could theoretically slot into a niche drain-and-ping shell, but even there the competition at one mana is stiff.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Scarblade Scout is deep bulk — the price reflects its limited demand outside narrow tribal lists. Don't expect movement; this sits at the bottom of the common-rare curve and has no cross-format demand to push it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.