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Skirk Alarmist

Creature — Human Wizard

Haste
{T}: Turn target face-down creature you control face up. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Legions
Price
$0.31
EDHREC rank
#20225
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Skirk Alarmist card art
Skirk Alarmist puts any face-down morph creature into play attacking — no mana cost, just flip and swing — but the drawback is steep: that creature dies at end of combat, no exceptions. In Missy, where that death trigger is the whole point, the cost vanishes entirely.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Missy

Missy

48.4% of decks · synergy 0.48

Missy's ability fires whenever a face-down creature you control is turned face up, and Skirk Alarmist turns that into a free attack trigger on demand — stack the ability, let the creature die at end of combat, and you've already gotten the Missy payoff before cleanup even arrives.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Skirk Alarmist is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Legacy and Vintage have no real interest in a 1/2 that reads 'pay two mana, lose a creature at end of combat' — the morph engine is too slow for those formats. Commander is where it lives, specifically in morph-tribal or flicker-adjacent builds where the forced death is either irrelevant or exploitable. Outside of Missy decks, it's a fringe inclusion even in Commander, showing up only when the deck is deeply committed to morph synergies.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.31 bulk tier

At $0.31, Skirk Alarmist is bulk — buy a playset without thinking about it. Its price is stable at the floor; demand is narrow enough that it won't spike, but it also won't disappear.

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