Viashino Sandscout
Creature — Lizard Scout
Haste (This creature can attack and 
as soon as it comes under your control.)
At the beginning of the end step, return this creature to its owner's hand. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tenth Edition
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #24692
Viashino Sandscout is a 2/1 haste creature that bounces itself to your hand at end of turn — cheap, repeatable, and purpose-built for abuse with Lore Drakkis and any spell-recursion engine that cares about creatures entering or leaving the battlefield. Outside of those specific shells, it does almost nothing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Viashino Sandscout sees essentially zero play in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern — the self-bounce clause reads as a drawback in formats fast enough to demand immediate board presence. Pauper is the closest it gets to relevance, where common-legal haste creatures are occasionally useful, but even there it rarely makes cuts. Commander is the format where it has a niche: any commander that rewards repeated enters-the-battlefield triggers, flicker-adjacent loops, or spell-recursion chains can extract real value from Viashino Sandscout's free return to hand.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Lore DrakkisViashino SandscoutTemporal Manipulation
Infinite turns; Lock
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Viashino Sandscout is deep bulk — you'll find copies in any bargain bin without looking hard. That price is stable floor; there's no wider demand to push it, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.