Scavenging Scarab
Creature — Insect
This creature can't block.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Darksteel
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #30668
Scavenging Scarab is a 3/2 for four mana that gains you 2 life when a creature dies — a rate so far below the curve that it struggles to justify a slot anywhere. The impact is marginal and the cost is real: four mana buys you far better lifegain and far better sacrifice payoffs.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Scavenging Scarab is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but competitive pressure in the non-rotating formats makes it unplayable in all of them. In Pauper, where the common card pool actually rewards tight construction, a four-mana 3/2 with a passive lifegain trigger can't compete with the efficient threats and engines available. Commander is the only format where it could theoretically slot in — a dedicated sacrifice or aristocrats shell might tolerate the lifegain — but even there, Scavenging Scarab is outclassed by cards doing the same job for less mana or with a bigger payoff.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Scavenging Scarab is deep bulk — the kind of card that costs more to ship than to buy. That price won't move; there's no latent demand waiting to surface here.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.