Scarland Thrinax

Creature — Lizard

Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{B}{R}{G}
Color identity
BGR
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Conflux
Price
$0.14
EDHREC rank
#22506
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Scarland Thrinax turns any creature you control into a +1/+1 counter on itself for one mana — repeatable, on-board, and available every turn. The cost is real: you're sacrificing your own creatures, so it earns its slot only in decks that want things to die.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Scarland Thrinax is a Commander card almost exclusively — the sacrifice-for-counters loop is too slow and too conditional for Legacy or Vintage, where the format's speed makes a 2/2 that asks you to feed it creatures a non-starter. In Commander, it finds a genuine home in Jund or Golgari sacrifice shells that generate creature tokens as a byproduct, treating the Thrinax as a mana sink that converts surplus bodies into a growing threat. Outside of Commander, legal status in Modern and Legacy is academic; it sees no competitive play in either format.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.14 bulk tier

At $0.14, Scarland Thrinax is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking twice. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a prominent sacrifice commander spikes interest, so grab it cheap and don't expect it to appreciate.

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