Stitchwing Skaab
Creature — Zombie Horror
Flying
, Discard two cards: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #23141
Stitchwing Skaab is a recursive 3/1 flier that keeps coming back as long as you have cards to discard — but that cost, two cards plus tapping, is steep when cheaper looters and better recursion targets exist. Run it only if your deck actively wants cards in the graveyard and can afford the repeated two-card tax.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Stitchwing Skaab finds its best home in Zombie tribal or graveyard-value builds where the discard cost doubles as engine fuel rather than card disadvantage. In Modern and Pioneer, it's outclassed — Eternal Scourge, Champion of Wits, and recursive threats with higher power-to-cost ratios make Stitchwing Skaab a fringe consideration at best. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a five-mana total investment for a 3/1 flier when those formats run engines that generate far more value per mana. Stitchwing Skaab is a Commander card, specifically a Zombie-graveyard Commander card, and should be treated as nothing broader than that.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Stitchwing Skaab is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a commons box, not tracking it on a buylist. It won't appreciate; the card has too narrow a use case and too many printings to ever exert price pressure.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.