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Serrated Scorpion

Creature — Scorpion

When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
Price
$0.18
EDHREC rank
#8688
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Serrated Scorpion card art
Serrated Scorpion drains two life on death and two more if you sacrifice it, turning every loop into a clock — the cost is a single black mana for a 1/1 that does nothing while it's alive. In dedicated engines like Mortuary or under Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker, that repeatable drain is exactly the payoff the deck is looking for.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

68.4% of decks · synergy 0.66

Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker returns every 1-power creature that dies under its watch, which means Serrated Scorpion drains two life every single turn cycle — for free, at scale, with no additional mana investment after the first cast.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Serrated Scorpion is a Commander card first — the drain engine it powers only matters when you're looping it dozens of times, and that infrastructure lives in 100-card singleton. In Pauper it's legal but competes with more proactive one-drops that don't require a sacrifice engine to do anything. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer offer the same verdict: a 1/1 deathtouch for one black is passable rate, but the death trigger is too slow and too small to matter in those formats without the kind of recursive shell those formats don't support. Stick to Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.18 bulk tier

At $0.18, Serrated Scorpion is bulk — you'll find it in a common box or grab a playset for under a dollar without thinking twice. Bulk commons with narrow combo applications don't appreciate, so buy it to play it, not to hold it.

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