Scour the Desert
Sorcery
Exile target creature card from your graveyard. Create X 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying, where X is the exiled card's toughness.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #20871
Scour the Desert puts a swarm of 1/1 Bird tokens onto the battlefield in a single shot — the payoff is real, but five mana at sorcery speed for a pure token effect is a steep ask. Run it in dedicated go-wide white-green shells where the token count matters more than the mana efficiency.
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 |
Scour the Desert is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it sees meaningful play is Commander. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage have no interest in a five-mana sorcery that produces tokens without impacting the board immediately — those formats demand far more efficiency. In Commander, Scour the Desert earns its slot in token-doubler and aristocrats shells where flooding the board with Birds off a single card can close a game or fuel a sacrifice engine.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.