Scourge of the Skyclaves

set	min	mtgo
-	9.27	0.08 tix

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Name	Scourge of the Skyclaves
Type	Creature — demon
Description	Kicker When you cast this spell, if it was kicked, each player loses half their life, rounded up. Scourge of the Skyclaves's power and toughness are each equal to 20 minus the highest life total among players.
Artist	Chase Stone
Set	Magic Online Promos #83792
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Scourge of the Skyclaves

Scourge of the Skyclaves, Creature — demon, designed by Chase Stone first released in Sep, 2020 in the set Zendikar Rising and was printed exactly in 5 different ways. It see play in 1 formats: Commander. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 9.27. It's a key card in 3 combos.

A deck that focuses on aggressive strategies and aims to quickly reduce opponents' life totals would benefit from including Scourge of the Skyclaves, as it can deal significant damage and potentially swing the game in your favor. However, there are other cards like Tarmogoyf or Death's Shadow that may offer more consistent power and toughness for a similar cost, making them potentially better options depending on the deck's strategy. Scourge of the Skyclaves could see play in specific aggressive decks looking for a powerful finisher, but its effectiveness may vary depending on the metagame and overall deck composition.

Rules

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An ability that triggers when a player casts a kicked spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger, but after targets have been chosen for that spell. It resolves even if that spell is countered.

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An ability that triggers when a player casts a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered. Notably, Scourge of the Skyclaves may have its toughness change from less than 0 to greater than 0 as a result of its triggered ability before it resolves and enters the battlefield.

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If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can’t kick it.

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Kicker represents an optional additional cost that you may choose to pay as you cast the spell. A spell cast with that additional cost paid is “kicked.”

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The ability that defines Scourge of the Skyclaves’s power and toughness applies in all zones, not just the battlefield.

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To determine a spell’s total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card’s effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The converted mana cost of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.