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Skirge Familiar

Creature — Phyrexian Imp

Flying
Discard a card: Add {B}.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Modern Horizons 2
Price
$0.29
EDHREC rank
#3007
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Skirge Familiar card art
Skirge Familiar turns every card in your hand into a Black Lotus sip — discard one, add one black mana — and that raw mana generation is the entire reason it exists. Commanders like Asmodeus the Archfiend and Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer treat the discard cost as a feature, not a tax, making Skirge Familiar one of the most efficient mana engines black has access to.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer

61.5% of decks · synergy 0.61

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer turns every discard outlet into card advantage, so Skirge Familiar simultaneously fuels your mana and fills your graveyard for Oskar to cast spells from — the two cards form an engine that pays for itself.

02
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

46.0% of decks · synergy 0.41

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth converts life into black mana already, and Skirge Familiar stacks on top, letting K'rrik storm off through a hand of Phyrexian-mana spells at a pace most decks can't answer.

03

Norman Osborn

37.3% of decks · synergy 0.36

Norman Osborn rewards putting cards into the graveyard, and Skirge Familiar does exactly that while producing the mana to capitalize on whatever falls — it's a dual-purpose piece in any Osborn build.

04
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

34.9% of decks · synergy 0.32

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist cares about the graveyard and creature density, and Skirge Familiar feeds both while generating the black mana Hashaton needs to activate and press its advantage.

05
The Gitrog Monster

The Gitrog Monster

25.9% of decks · synergy 0.25

The Gitrog Monster's combo lines classically run through Skirge Familiar as the mana engine that lets you chain discard-draw loops into lethal piles — it's nearly mandatory in any tuned Gitrog build.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Skirge Familiar lives; the combination of discard-matters commanders and graveyard synergies makes it a genuine engine piece rather than a curiosity. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but rarely sees competitive play — five mana is a steep entry point in formats with access to broken one- and two-mana alternatives. Pauper is its most interesting non-Commander home, where a repeatable mana generator attached to a flying body clears a much lower bar, though even there it sees fringe play. For Commander players, the format legality elsewhere is mostly irrelevant — this card exists to power out game-winning plays in black-heavy combo decks.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.29 bulk tier

At $0.29, Skirge Familiar is deep bulk — a card with genuine combo pedigree that costs less than a sleeve. That price is stable; it's not a hidden gem waiting to spike, it's just a card that's widely available and seldom chased outside the specific decks that need it.

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