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Headless Skaab

Creature — Zombie Warrior2 generic manaBlue mana

That 3/6 body is the entire pitch, and the graveyard tax is what pays for it. A wall this thick on three mana would be undercosted as a vanilla blocker, so the design fences it behind a self-mill cost: you cannot cast it until you have a creature card to exile, and casting it shrinks whatever recursion or delve plan that graveyard was feeding. It belongs to the self-mill subtheme where filling your own yard is a resource you spend across multiple cards, and Headless Skaab is the spell that competes hardest for that resource: it wants a graveyard, then eats from it. The enters-tapped clause closes the other loophole, denying the wall a turn of immediate defense so it cannot stonewall an aggressive curve the moment it lands. What you get for those concessions is a blocker that laughs off most early creatures and trades up against bigger ones, the kind of toughness-heavy body that turns a race into a grind. The fragility is structural rather than combat-based: nothing on the board threatens it, but every point of toughness rests on a graveyard you have agreed to hollow out.

Headless Skaab (dka)
DKA · #40common
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard. This creature enters tapped.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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