Card
Varolz, the Scar-Striped
Mana cost {1}{B}{G}
Legendary Creature — Troll Warrior 2/2
Each creature card in your graveyard has scavenge. The scavenge cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.) Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Varolz.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 7 known combos. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · DGM · #112
- Cheapest printing
- €0.40
- EDHREC salt
- 0.30
- Color identity
- Black, Green
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
7 known combos.
- Varolz, the Scar-Striped + Protean Hulk + Disciple of the Vault + Wingrattle Scarecrow + Melira, Sylvok Outcast
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifeloss
View on Commander Spellbook - Varolz, the Scar-Striped + Workhorse + Eternal Scourge + Branching Evolution
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Varolz, the Scar-Striped + Workhorse + Eternal Scourge + Primal Vigor
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
While Varolz, the Scar-Striped is on the battlefield, the scavenge cost of a creature card in your graveyard is equal to its mana cost, including any colored mana requirements. - 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
If the creature card you scavenge has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0. - 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
Abilities that reduce the cost to cast a creature spell or alternative costs you can pay rather than a card's mana cost don't apply to activating a card's scavenge ability. - 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
If a creature card has multiple instances of scavenge, you can activate either ability (but not both, as the card will be exiled when you activate one of them). Varolz's ability doesn't affect the scavenge cost of a creature's other scavenge ability. - 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
Exiling the creature card with scavenge is part of the cost of activating the scavenge ability. Once the ability is activated and the cost is paid, it's too late to stop the ability from being activated by trying to remove the creature card from the graveyard. - 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
The number of counters that a card's scavenge ability puts on a creature is based on the card's power as it last existed in the graveyard.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast