Card
Possessed Skaab
Mana cost {3}{U}{B}
When this creature enters, return target instant, sorcery, or creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If this creature would die, exile it instead.
Part of 171 known combos, one of them two-card. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · ORI · #215
- Cheapest printing
- €0.16
- EDHREC salt
- 0.47
- Color identity
- Black, Blue
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Doppelgang
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Doppelgang
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: Its two-card combos are not early, which Bracket 3 allows
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Doppelgang (none of them early)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
171 known combos, one of them two-card.
- Ghostly Flicker + Peregrine Drake + Possessed Skaab
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook - Displace + Possessed Skaab + Peregrine Drake
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook - Illusionist's Stratagem + Peregrine Drake + Possessed Skaab
Produces: Near-infinite landfall triggers, Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2015-06-22 · Wizards of the Coast
Possessed Skaab’s last ability will apply no matter what caused it to die (lethal damage, being sacrificed, enough -1/-1 counters, and so on). Possessed Skaab won’t go to the graveyard. It will be put from the battlefield into exile. Abilities that trigger whenever a creature dies won’t trigger.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast