Skittering Monstrosity
Creature — Horror
When you cast a creature spell, sacrifice this creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #30985
Skittering Monstrosity lands as a 6/5 for four mana — legitimately above-rate — but it forces you to sacrifice a non-Horror permanent when it enters, which in most decks means feeding it a land or a utility creature. The penalty makes it a build-around, not a value drop-in.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Skittering Monstrosity sees essentially no play in Legacy or Vintage, where four mana for a vanilla-adjacent beater competes with format-warping threats. Modern is similarly uninterested — the sacrifice clause is a real cost, and aggressive shells can find cleaner stat packages. Commander is where Skittering Monstrosity has its only realistic home: Horror-tribal lists under commanders like Umbris, Fear Manifest, or Nethroi, Apex of Death can satisfy the sacrifice trigger painlessly, and a 6/5 body for four is genuinely threatening at a table where mana efficiency matters.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Skittering Monstrosity is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card itself. Bulk rares with narrow build-around requirements rarely climb unless a new commander creates a sudden demand spike, so don't expect this to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.