Screaming Swarm
Creature — Bird Horror
Flying
Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, target player mills that many cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
: Put this card from your graveyard into your library second from the top.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #17045
Screaming Swarm puts a self-replacing recursive threat on the board that grows every time it attacks — the cost is that it needs a stocked graveyard and a combat step to do anything. If your deck can feed both conditions, it earns its slot; if it can't, it's just a vanilla flier.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Screaming Swarm has a real home, specifically in self-mill and graveyard-value decks that are already filling the bin and swinging wide. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's outclassed by faster, more consistent threats that don't require setup — competitive graveyard decks in those formats have better options at every point on the curve. Vintage has the same problem at warp speed. Screaming Swarm is a Commander card through and through, and even there it needs the right shell.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Screaming Swarm is deep bulk — zero barrier to picking up a copy if the shell fits. Bulk rares with niche graveyard applications rarely spike unless a Commander printing or high-profile deck tech pushes them, so don't expect movement.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.