Headless Skaab
Dark Ascension 40 • common
- Set
- Dark Ascension
- Collector number
- 40
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Johann Bodin
- Market price
- $0.07
What it does
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard.
This creature enters tapped.
A head is a needless encumbrance when muscle is all that's required.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Headless Skaab was released in 2012 as part of the Dark Ascension expansion for Magic: The Gathering. Set in the gothic horror-inspired plane of Innistrad, the expansion explored the struggle of humanity against rising supernatural threats. Within this narrative, the card represents the 'Skaab' creatures—undead monstrosities stitched together from various corpses by necromancers, reflecting the set's central theme of macabre biological engineering.
The card’s illustration was created by artist Daarken, known for his work on numerous high-fantasy projects. The design emphasizes the gritty, unsettling nature of Innistrad’s undead, focusing on the patchwork anatomy and the stark, bleak atmosphere of the setting. Upon its release, the card was received as a functional inclusion in limited formats, valued by players for its ability to provide a recurring threat in graveyard-focused strategies.
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