Skittering Horror
Creature — Phyrexian Horror
When you cast a creature spell, sacrifice this creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Beatdown Box Set
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #30691
Skittering Horror lands as a 4/3 for two mana — one of the most aggressive stats-per-cost ratios in black — but it demands you sacrifice a non-Horror permanent whenever an opponent casts a spell, which turns every counterspell, removal spell, or cantrip across the table into a death by a thousand cuts. The payoff is real, but the tax makes it unplayable in any multiplayer context where you're facing three opponents throwing spells every turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Skittering Horror is a bulk curiosity in Legacy and Vintage, where a 4/3 for two is theoretically threatening but the forced-sacrifice trigger is disqualifying in any game where opponents interact — which is every game at those tables. Pauper is the one format where it might scrape into consideration: common-legal black aggro shells occasionally want raw power on turn two, but even there the drawback is too punishing against the removal-heavy decks that define the format. In Commander, three opponents casting spells means you'll sacrifice your entire board by turn four, so Skittering Horror belongs nowhere near a 99.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Skittering Horror is deep bulk — the price reflects exactly what the market thinks of it. Don't expect this to move; there's no competitive home driving demand, and bulk commons with symmetrical drawbacks don't recover.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.