Skywarp Skaab
Creature — Zombie Drake
Flying
When this creature enters, you may exile two creature cards from your graveyard. If you do, draw a card.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #25412
Skywarp Skaab enters as a 3/3 flying flash creature and immediately replaces itself by returning an instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand — all for four mana. That's a real rate in spell-heavy decks, and the flash clause means it doubles as an end-step play that keeps your mana open.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Skywarp Skaab earns a slot in Izzet or Dimir spellslinger lists that want to loop key instants and sorceries — think Kalamax, the Stormsire or Talrand, Sky Summoner shells where the recursion directly fuels the engine. Pauper is where it gets most interesting competitively: commons-only graveyard recursion stapled to a flying body is genuinely scarce, and four mana is manageable in slower Dimir control builds. In Modern and Pioneer, Skywarp Skaab is simply outclassed — those formats have cheaper, more explosive ways to recur spells, and a four-mana 3/3 without immediate board impact beyond card selection won't make the cut. Legacy and Vintage don't want it at all.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Skywarp Skaab is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking twice. Don't expect that to change; the effect is solid but not scarce enough to drive demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.