Scout the City
Sorcery
Choose one —
• Look Around — Mill three cards. You may put a permanent card from among them into your hand. You gain 3 life. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
• Bring Down — Destroy target creature with flying.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Through the Omenpaths
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #13240
Scout the City puts five cards on top of your library and then peels one off for free every time you attack with Miles Morales — that's sustained card advantage stapled to your combat step. The two-mana entry cost is negligible; the real question is whether your deck attacks enough to cash out the counters, and in Miles Morales builds, the answer is almost always yes.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Miles Morales
Scout the City is built for Miles Morales — every attack trigger spends a counter and draws a card, turning the saga's setup into a five-turn draw engine that runs entirely off your natural game plan of swinging with a webslinger.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Scout the City is legal across every major format but lives almost exclusively in Commander, where the slow saga payoff has time to fully unwind. In Miles Morales Commander decks specifically, it functions as repeatable card advantage that rewards you for doing what the deck already wants to do. Competitive 60-card formats have no patience for a three-chapter saga that asks you to attack five times before the engine kicks in — faster draw spells dominate those queues. Pauper is the one non-Commander context worth mentioning, since Scout the City is common and card selection at two mana is meaningful at that level, though the combat-dependent payoff still limits it to aggressive shells.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Price data isn't currently available for Scout the City, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the latest number. As a set-specific Miles Morales card with a narrow but devoted Commander audience, it tends to stay affordable — pick it up whenever you're already ordering.
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- Miles Morales
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.