Viashino Skeleton
Creature — Lizard Skeleton
, Discard a card: Regenerate this creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #30040
Viashino Skeleton is a repeatable looting engine stapled to a 2/1 body — pay two mana and discard a card to draw a card, as many times as you can afford. The activation cost is steep enough that it rarely replaces dedicated draw spells, but in decks that want the graveyard as a resource, the discard is the point.
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 |
In Commander, Viashino Skeleton earns a slot only in decks that explicitly want to pitch cards to the graveyard — reanimator, hellbent, or Madness builds where the discard is a benefit rather than a cost. In Pauper it competes with cleaner looting commons and doesn't make the cut. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a 2/1 that costs mana to cycle. Viashino Skeleton is a niche card in every format it's legal in, and Commander is the only one where it occasionally earns its roster spot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Viashino Skeleton is pure bulk — you'll find it in a commons box before you'd bother ordering it. There's no reason to expect that to change.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.