Scarland Thrinax
Creature — Lizard
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Conflux
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #22506
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
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
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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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.