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Skittering Precursor

Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Menace
Whenever you sacrifice a nontoken permanent, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Modern Horizons 3
Price
$0.24
EDHREC rank
#9806
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Skittering Precursor card art
Skittering Precursor enters and immediately floods the board with Eldrazi Scion tokens equal to the number of Eldrazi you already control — in the right shell, that's four or five bodies off a single cast. The Chthonian Nightmare and Herigast, Erupting Nullkite pairings push it from solid value piece to genuine engine, and four mana is a fair price for what it delivers.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Herigast, Erupting Nullkite

Herigast, Erupting Nullkite

31.4% of decks · synergy 0.31

Herigast, Erupting Nullkite casts Eldrazi repeatedly from exile, so by the time Skittering Precursor hits the battlefield the Eldrazi count is already stacked — you're routinely seeing five-plus Scions on entry, which feeds the sacrifice and mana-generation loops Herigast wants.

02
Rakdos, the Muscle

Rakdos, the Muscle

29.2% of decks · synergy 0.28

Rakdos, the Muscle demands a steady stream of creatures to sacrifice, and Skittering Precursor delivers a batch of them the moment it enters — Rakdos, the Muscle turns that token flood directly into card advantage and combat pressure without any additional setup.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Skittering Precursor is a Commander card through and through — the token count scales with your board state, and multiplayer games give you the time and the Eldrazi density to make it absurd. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but entirely absent from those formats; four mana for a creature that needs support to do anything is nowhere near the rate those formats demand. Oathbreaker could support it in a dedicated Eldrazi shell, but Commander is where the card actually functions as intended.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.24 bulk tier

At $0.24, Skittering Precursor is bulk by any measure — easy to acquire as a throw-in or in large lots. Bulk rares with narrow tribal requirements rarely climb unless a new Eldrazi commander creates a spike in demand, so expect the price to stay flat unless the type line gets a push.

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