Scouring Swarm
Scouring Swarm: Creature - Insect, Edge of Eternities Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}{G}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Creature - Insect
- Colour identity
- Black and green (BG)
- Power / toughness
- 1/1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Edge of Eternities Commander (EOC)
- Released
- 2025-08-01
- Collector number
- 16
- Artist
- Diana Franco
- Commander rank
- 5,805 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flying
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About Scouring Swarm
Scouring Swarm is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black and green creature from Edge of Eternities Commander (EOC), a Commander product released in August 2025. It is collector number 16 in that set, with art by Diana Franco. It costs {1}{B}{G} (one generic, one black and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 1/1 creature. Its colour identity is black and green. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Edge of Eternities Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.32 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Flying
Whenever you sacrifice a land, create a tapped token that's a copy of this creature if seven or more land cards are in your graveyard. Otherwise, create a tapped 1/1 black Insect creature token with flying.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.32 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Scouring Swarm by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Scouring Swarm
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Edge of Eternities Commander (EOC) #36 | Rare | 2025 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Scouring Swarm, newest first.
- In the unusual case where Scouring Swarm becomes a copy of something else while its triggered ability is on the stack but before it resolves and seven or more land cards are in your graveyard when the ability resolves, the token will enter as a copy of whatever Scouring Swarm is copying. (Swarms come in many forms.)
- Scouring Swarm’s last ability counts the number of land cards in your graveyard as it resolves. This will usually include the land you sacrificed.
- If Scouring Swarm leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves and seven or more land cards are in your graveyard when the ability resolves, the token will still enter as a copy of Scouring Swarm, using Scouring Swarm’s copiable values from when it was last on the battlefield.
- The token doesn’t copy whether Scouring Swarm is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.
- The token copy will have Scouring Swarm’s abilities and will be able to create more copies of itself.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a black and green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Scouring Swarm is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.