Subterranean Scout
Creature — Goblin Scout
When this creature enters, target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria Remastered
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #19883
Subterranean Scout enters the battlefield and makes a target Mountain-creature unblockable until end of turn — a narrow, one-shot effect stapled to a 1/1 body for two mana. It's a bulk common for a reason: the payoff is too conditional and too small to justify a slot outside dedicated Goblin or Mountain-matters strategies.
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 |
Subterranean Scout is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees meaningful play in essentially none of them. In Commander, the Mountain restriction makes it a near-dead card in anything outside mono-red or heavy-red builds, and even there, a 1/1 that makes one creature unblockable once rarely swings a 40-life multiplayer game. Pauper is its most plausible home — cheap creatures with evasion-enabling effects can matter in aggressive commons-only shells — but even there the conditional targeting holds it back from reliable rotation.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Subterranean Scout is deep bulk — the kind of card that costs more to ship than to replace. It holds no financial value and is unlikely to spike absent a fringe combo discovery, so there's no reason to acquire or hold copies beyond direct deck use.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.