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Scarecrone

Artifact Creature — Scarecrow

{1}, Sacrifice a Scarecrow: Draw a card.
{4}, {T}: Return target artifact creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
The List
Price
$5.26
EDHREC rank
#8024
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Scarecrone card art
Scarecrone turns a graveyard of artifact creatures into a repeatable draw engine and a recursion loop — two abilities on one card for three mana is a steep discount on utility. The catch is the tap cost and the Scarecrow clause on recursion, but anything that lets Coretapper trade into the graveyard early gets recurred for free the moment Scarecrone hits play.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Scarecrone is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only sees meaningful play in Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, three mana for incremental draw and conditional recursion is too slow against the raw power of those formats. Modern is a tighter race where a three-mana do-nothing-on-entry artifact creature rarely earns a slot. Commander is where Scarecrone lives — the format's slower clock and artifact-synergy commanders give both abilities room to generate real advantage over the course of a game.

Key Combos

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

There is no direct budget replacement for Scarecrone's specific combination of draw and recursion on one card — most alternatives cover only one axis. Skullclamp comes closest to matching the draw rate in artifact-creature decks and costs less, but it contributes nothing to recursion. If the recursion half is the priority, Trading Post does similar work at a comparable price and broader artifact coverage, though it lacks the free draw on sacrifice.

Price Context

Current price

$5.26 mid tier

At $5.26, Scarecrone sits in the mid tier — affordable enough that cutting it for budget reasons is hard to justify in the decks that actually want it. It has never been a chase card, so the price reflects genuine but niche demand rather than hype, and it tends to hold that floor steadily.

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