Scute Swarm

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Alchemy Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Brawl Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Pre-release Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Standard Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Scute Swarm

Creature — Insect

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that’s a copy of Scute Swarm instead.

Gidgetimer on Scute Swarm and Callidus Assassin …

4 weeks ago

Copiable values of an object are the printed values of the object as modified by previous copy effects, facedown status, and replacement effects that set P/T. Callidus Assassin's own copy effect made it exactly Scute Swarm with the added ability "When this creature enters the battlefield, destroy up to one other target creature with the same name as this creature." So the token copies made by the landfall ability are exactly Scute Swarm with the added ability "When this creature enters the battlefield, destroy up to one other target creature with the same name as this creature."

707.2. When copying an object, the copy acquires the copiable values of the original object’s characteristics and, for an object on the stack, choices made when casting or activating it (mode, targets, the value of X, whether it was kicked, how it will affect multiple targets, and so on). The copiable values are the values derived from the text printed on the object (that text being name, mana cost, color indicator, card type, subtype, supertype, rules text, power, toughness, and/or loyalty), as modified by other copy effects, by its face-down status, and by “as . . . enters the battlefield” and “as . . . is turned face up” abilities that set power and toughness (and may also set additional characteristics). Other effects (including type-changing and text-changing effects), status, counters, and stickers are not copied.

OxygenDestroyer65 on Scute Swarm and Callidus Assassin …

4 weeks ago

If I cast Callidus Assassin and destroy a Scute Swarm, how do I handle the copies that will be created when I put lands onto the battlefield if I control 6 or more lands? Do I create a copy of the "scute" Callidus, which then enters as a copy of something else and destroys whatever I decide to copy? I don't think each Callidus copy retains the Scute's ability to copy itself, except the first one. I might be overcomplicating this. Thank you!

mudkipdude on Card creation challenge

1 month ago

Limitless feast

Legendary sorcery

Recursion 3

Create a food token

When a void counter is removed off this card while it is exile, create a copy of it with three void counters and a feast counter. If this card has a feast counter on it, the copy gets an additional feast counter. If this card has 2 feast counters on it, this ability doesn’t activate.

Wordy. I love the cards that create copies of themself, with the ability that makes the copy, like Scute Swarm, this card, Compy Swarm and Progenitor Mimic. So let’s see one of those

Crow_Umbra on Smeagol will guide you | **Primer v1.2**

6 months ago

Hi there, thank you for reaching out. I hope my suggestions will be helpful, but here are some things I noticed when I took a look at your deck:

If you haven't already, I would recommend checking out EDHREC's page on Smeagol, Helpful Guide, here are the pages for a Sacrifice themed deck and a more Landfall focused deck. These pages can give you an idea of which effects overlap between the two strats, and what might be within your budget.

I hope these suggestions were helpful.

wallisface on GW Tokens

7 months ago

Some thoughts:

  • Modern decks typically can’t run more than 4 cards costing 4-or-more mana… you’ve got a whopping 10. This is going to lead to your deck being super slow/clumsy. I’d heavily suggest lowering you lr curve.

  • Scute Swarm is only really worthwhile if you can easily get to 6 lands (and then reliably play more lands every turn). Currently you’re not even likely to hit your 6th land until turn 9-10, and there’s no way a game ever goes that long (you should be deck building assuming one player represents a winning position by turn 5).

DreadKhan on Aquaman, Lord of the Fishies

8 months ago

In Simic there are options like Koma, Cosmos Serpent which can just overwhelm tables by itself, especially if you can protect it. Not the cheapest card though, some cheaper options are Overwhelming Stampede, which can help close games by making your creatures a lot bigger, even if you don't have a huge number of them, as long as you have a creature with decent power out you'll be good. There is also Blossoming Bogbeast, this wants ways to gain life, but Green has some out there, Primal Command is a great budget card IMHO, solves problems and has pretty impressive synergy with the Bogbeast. You might like using Spawning Kraken, any time an appropriate creature gets in you get another big token. Finally, not sure if you have enough Islandwalk, but Stormtide Leviathan is a big unblockable attacker that makes you fairly hard to attack. Resolving any of those cards tends to end games pretty quickly in my experience, and most reward you for simply having a big board, a thing you always want to be doing.

I also like some of Blue's fairly nasty interaction, one alternative to making your guys big is to make someone else's guys way smaller, Mass Diminish is frankly an absurd amount of value in more Casual pods, such as lower budget games. Note it has Flashback and the effect lasts an entire turn cycle, meaning it can also eliminate an archenemy that's gotten ahead. Since you're running higher MV stuff, you might try out Curse of the Swine, this can make your opponent's defenses quite paltry, and it also can deal with problem creatures (like the aforementioned Koma) since it's an Exile effect. Another way to chip away at your opponent (and empower yourself) is to use something like Mass Diminish, I don't know how long your games go, but if you expect to end up with +10 mana available, this card starts looking interesting. I'd skip it if people run a lot of counterspells though, it's a 'go big or go home' kinda card but by all means hold up your own Negate.

Green has some interaction of it's own, if people run flyers in your meta and you're losing to them there are many ways in Green to wipe them, I like Squallmonger and Silklash Spider, but there are a ton more including Hurricane. If you don't have many flyers, this does nothing to you. Green also has Ezuri's Predation if people like to make lots of tokens that are usually smaller than 4/4 (if you run anthem effects that affect the beasts the card is much better obviously).

Just a general point, in Simic it's nice to avoid artifact ramp because you have so many amazing options to ramp with, artifacts tend to die more easily than lands, so effects that get extra lands into play are better than Command Sphere, especially in a 2 colour deck I'd argue. Myriad Landscape and Blighted Woodland are both fairly interesting ramp cards, you can always leave them as lands until you need them. Another feature of land ramp is that you can run cards like Rampaging Baloths and Scute Swarm, either gets a lot better if you're getting more landfall trigger, artifacts rarely have synergy with Simic game plans.

Crow_Umbra on Princess and the frog (Disney adaption)

8 months ago

Dreadhorde Invasion and Felidar Retreat could both be good sources for creature tokens to sacrifice to Thalia & Gitrog. Felidar Retreat is especially decent given T&GM's extra Landfall ability. If you would like another token creator, Scute Swarm is right at home with some extra land drops, and can swarm someone or be another source of tokens to sacrifice.

You could also enchant yourself with Curse of the Restless Dead and use it as another source of tokens off your extra land drops.

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