Serrated Scorpion
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Freeform Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Serrated Scorpion

Creature — Scorpion

When Serrated Scorpion dies (is put into the graveyard from the battlefield), it deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.

legendofa on Mark Rosewater's Commentary on Poison …

3 months ago

Antidotes do exist in M:tG, although usually flavored as some sort of life gain. Pharika, God of Affliction and the Witherbloom school of Strixhaven both have dedicated medicinal practices. And cards like Voracious Cobra and Serrated Scorpion indicate that some species have very potent poisons. And that's not too unusual, plenty of real-world biological and mineral poisons don't have an antidote.

Another point is that aside from the oddballs like Fynn, the Fangbearer and Persuasive Interrogators, the biggest source of poison counters in-story is Phyrexian oil, which until relatively recently was explicitly permanent and incurable. And it would be confusing and awkward to represent different poiosn with both poison counters, representing incurable poisons, and a hypothetical "venom counter" or something representing curable poisons. Gameplay takes precedence over flavor, so the simplest solution is that poison that affects players is incurable.

Also, deathtouch and wither can also represent incurable poisons, so it's not just poison counters.

jarid250 on Black Burner

1 year ago

Yeeeah, and I don't exactly want to play tap lands to be able to pay the flashback cost.. and it wouldn't be a mono black burn deck anymore, which is sort of the novelty.

I opted for Fruit of Tizerus instead, but then thought I needed a few more creatures, so I tried Serrated Scorpion.. which I might swap out for Basilica Screecher.

The deck's still a WIP.

Czarnian90 on Arachnophobia, Webs of Fear (Shelob)

1 year ago

Hey,

You're right — the deck is still a bit raw and definitely needs some improvements in card draw and mana ramp. Thanks a lot for the suggestions! I actually had some of these cards on my acquireboard already. I’ve now added Moldervine Reclamation and Sol Ring, and took out Serrated Scorpion and Chainweb Aracnir.

I also swapped Gloomwidow for Hoarding Recluse.

I’m waiting to see if Curse of Clinging Webs and Swarmyard become available in my local shop — if they do, I’ll definitely include them :)

Also, I'm still considering a few more cards for the deck, like Back for More, Archdruid's Charm, Obscuring Haze, Fog, Deathsprout, Tear Asunder, Terrifying Presence, You Look Upon the Tarrasque, Revitalizing Repast  Flip, Heroic Intervention, Vraska, the Silencer, Graveshifter, Juvenile Gloomwidow, Greta, Sweettooth Scourge, Broodspinner, Graverobber Spider, Nyx Weaver, Spinner of Souls, Worldly Tutor, Doubling Season, Parallel Lives, Triumph of the Hordes, Rotwidow Pack, Sporeweb Weaver, Realmwalker, and a few others...

Balaam__ on Black burn

2 years ago

Have you considered adding any damage dealing 1 pip creatures like Serrated Scorpion or Death Cultist?

Kjartan on 101% Mono Black Burn

2 years ago

Balaam__ When things go well, you should absolutely be ahead on life, but not ahead on mana. You need to have a lot of lands in play for Bond of Agony to compare on power-level with your cheaper burn spells. You need 4 lands for it to just rival Sovereign's Bite, and that's with the life-gain reversed. You need 5 lands in play for it to do something your other cards can't.

That said, even with Syphon Life to discard excess lands, I do get that there are scenarios on rare occasions where you end up with 5-6 or 7 lands on the battlefield, and a healthy life-total to boot.

If you want specifically an X spell for this scenario, may I instead suggest Profane Command. It's even more budget friendly than Bond of Agony and it's a much safer path to victory. It causes 1 less point of life loss under normal circumstances, but with a Death Cultist in your graveyard, it can have the exact same effect but without paying any life cast it. On top of that, it's just extremely flexible. You can play it for three mana just to ping for one and get a Serrated Scorpion back, or use it to alpha-strike through a board of blockers.

amarthaler on Pauper Songs of the Darned

3 years ago

Added some new cycling creatures from LOTR as well as Drannith Stinger for extra damage and Serrated Scorpion for a draining blocker.

wallisface on Demonic Sacrifice

4 years ago

I’d suggest something along the lines of (as an example):

legendofa on best draw cards for modern …

4 years ago

As a thought for Vexing Devil, it could work with cards like Claim / Fame and Call of the Death-Dweller. Fill it out with something like Serrated Scorpion and Perilous Myr, maybe some sacrifice effects like Viscera Seer, and that might be a decent casual deck. (Dumping ideas off the top of my head, so I'm sure there are better card options.)

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