Screeching Silcaw
Creature — Bird
Flying
Metalcraft — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if you control three or more artifacts, that player mills four cards.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Scars of Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #28208
Screeching Silcaw mills the top card of each opponent's library every time it attacks — a 1/1 flier for one blue mana. The effect is far too slow to matter in competitive play and too small to threaten mill as a win condition without massive redundancy.
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 |
Screeching Silcaw is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but that breadth doesn't translate to playability. In Commander, milling one card per opponent per attack is negligible — you'd need to attack dozens of times to threaten a 100-card library, and a 1/1 rarely survives long enough to matter. In Pauper, where commons compete at a higher rate of return, a one-mana flier needs to do more than chip away at a library to earn a slot. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in this effect at this rate.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Screeching Silcaw is deep bulk — the price reflects the demand accurately. It won't appreciate unless a future mill synergy makes a one-blue 1/1 flier specifically relevant, which is a long shot.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.