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Skull Skaab

Creature — ZombieBlue manaBlack mana

Exploit has always been a mechanic that spends bodies to buy value, but the sacrifice is where the profit usually leaks: you trade a creature to draw a card or drain a life, and the board comes out even at best. This one closes that gap by paying you back in the same currency you spent. Sacrifice a nontoken creature to its exploit trigger and you get a Zombie back, so the classic exploit tempo hit (down a creature going into the fight) evens out to a body swap instead of a body loss. The nontoken clause is the restriction doing the balancing work: you cannot feed it the very tokens it makes, so it will not spiral on its own, and the reward only fires on real creatures worth exploiting. The wider reach is that it triggers off any creature you control exploiting, not just itself, which turns a deck full of exploit creatures into a chain where every sacrifice manufactures fresh fodder for the next one. That is the strategic axis it sits on: not a single value engine but the connective tissue that makes a stack of individually break-even exploit bodies into something that grows. Left alone on a 2/2 frame in two colors, it is modest; surrounded by other exploiters, it is the piece that keeps the graveyard-feeding loop from running dry.

Skull Skaab (dbl)
DBL · #515uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.39
Oracle Text

Rules text

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) Whenever a creature you control exploits a nontoken creature, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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