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Scouring Swarm

Creature — Insect

Flying
Whenever you sacrifice a land, create a tapped token that's a copy of this creature if seven or more land cards are in your graveyard. Otherwise, create a tapped 1/1 black Insect creature token with flying.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{B}{G}
Color identity
BG
Rarity
rare
Set
Edge of Eternities Commander
Price
$0.28
EDHREC rank
#6160
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Scouring Swarm card art
Scouring Swarm floods the board with insect tokens on entry and keeps the pressure on with a built-in attack trigger — the impact is immediate and scalable. Hearthhull, the Worldseed and Beifong's Bounty Hunters both exploit that token density hard enough that this card earns its slot in any deck that cares about creatures entering or swinging in numbers.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Hearthhull, the Worldseed

Hearthhull, the Worldseed

55.8% of decks · synergy 0.45

Scouring Swarm is a near-automatic include in Hearthhull, the Worldseed decks because the token flood on entry triggers Hearthhull's landfall-and-growth engine while the attack trigger keeps churning out bodies to fuel further activations.

02
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

53.4% of decks · synergy 0.42

Szarel, Genesis Shepherd rewards you for insects dying and returning from the graveyard, and Scouring Swarm provides a steady stream of cheap tokens to sacrifice or trade in combat — each attack refills the supply Szarel wants to consume.

03
Zask, Skittering Swarmlord

Zask, Skittering Swarmlord

24.9% of decks · synergy 0.24

Zask, Skittering Swarmlord draws cards whenever an insect dies, so Scouring Swarm's expendable token army turns every trade or sacrifice outlet into card advantage with minimal investment.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Scouring Swarm actually lives — it's legal but essentially unplayed in Legacy and Vintage, where a three-mana enchantment that produces tokens isn't competitive with the raw power density of those formats. In Commander, the longer game and token-synergy density make the attack trigger genuinely threatening, especially in insect or go-wide builds. Oathbreaker is the only other format where it sees meaningful play, and for the same reasons: slower pace, synergy-driven decks that want redundancy.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.28 bulk tier

At $0.28, Scouring Swarm is firmly bulk — pick it up without hesitation if the synergy fits. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a breakout commander pushes insect tokens into the spotlight.

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