Stingerback Terror
Creature — Scorpion Dragon
Flying, trample
This creature gets -1/-1 for each card in your hand.
Plot 
(You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #16399
Stingerback Terror hits the board as a massive threat that punishes opponents for having full hands, turning their card advantage into your damage. The cost is real — it only gets big when your opponents are flush with cards, so in topdeck situations it shrinks fast.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Stingerback Terror plays best in the early turns of a game before hands thin out, and it pairs naturally with effects that force opponents to draw cards — wheels, Howling Mine effects, and group hug strategies that keep hand sizes inflated. The four-player format means you're often counting cards across three opponents, which can push this into genuine threat territory without much support. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, hand sizes drop quickly and opponents can answer it before you recoup the investment, making Stingerback Terror a fringe consideration at best. Standard is the one format where it could see legitimate play if a hand-size-matters shell exists in the meta.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Stingerback Terror is pure bulk — low enough that picking up copies costs nothing meaningful. That price is likely to hold; it has a narrow enough home that no sudden demand spike is coming unless a dedicated archetype emerges.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.