Card
Zask, Skittering Swarmlord
Mana cost {3}{G}{G}
Legendary Creature — Insect 5/5
You may play lands and cast Insect spells from your graveyard. Whenever another Insect you control dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library, then mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) {1}{B/G}: Target Insect gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. ({B/G} can be paid with either {B} or {G}.)
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 58 known combos. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · J22 · #47
- Cheapest printing
- €14.84
- EDHREC salt
- 0.60
- Color identity
- Black, Green
- Keywords
- Mill
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
58 known combos.
- Zask, Skittering Swarmlord + Verdant Succession + Ashnod's Altar
Produces: Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Zask, Skittering Swarmlord + Verdant Succession + Altar of Dementia
Produces: Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Zask, Skittering Swarmlord + Azusa, Lost but Seeking + Glacial Chasm
Produces: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-12-02 · Wizards of the Coast
You must pay all costs and follow all timing rules for cards played from your graveyard this way. For example, you may play a land this way only while the stack is empty during one of your own main phases, and only if you haven't played a land yet this turn.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast