Scute Swarm
Scute Swarm: Creature - Insect, Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{G}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Creature - Insect
- Colour identity
- Green (G)
- Power / toughness
- 1/1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)
- Released
- 2024-09-27
- Collector number
- 197
- Artist
- Alex Konstad
- Keywords
- Landfall
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About Scute Swarm
Scute Swarm is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare green creature from Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC), a Commander product released in September 2024. It is collector number 197 in that set, with art by Alex Konstad. It costs {2}{G} (two generic and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 1/1 creature. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 9 sets, from Zendikar Rising (2020) to Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $9.16 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
Landfall - Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that's a copy of this creature instead.
"Survival rule 782: There are *always* more scute bugs." -Zurdi, goblin shortcutter
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $9.16 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Scute Swarm by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Scute Swarm
Scute Swarm has been printed in 9 sets. The 12 most recent other printings are listed here, newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #205 | Rare | 2026 |
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #326 | Rare | 2026 |
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #84 | Rare | 2026 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #7048 | Rare | 2025 |
| Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C) #245 | Rare | 2024 |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) #205 | Rare | 2024 |
| New Capenna Commander (NCC) #310 | Rare | 2022 |
| Zendikar Rising Promos (PZNR) #203★ | Rare | 2021 |
| Zendikar Rising Promos (PZNR) #203p | Rare | 2020 |
| Zendikar Rising Promos (PZNR) #203s | Rare | 2020 |
| Zendikar Rising (ZNR) #203 | Rare | 2020 |
| Zendikar Rising (ZNR) #308 | Rare | 2020 |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Scute Swarm, newest first.
- A landfall ability triggers whenever a land you control enters for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability puts a land onto the battlefield under your control.
- Whenever a land you control enters, each landfall ability of the permanents you control will trigger. You can put them on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve (As a result, you can have those abilities resolve in the order of your choosing.).
- A landfall ability doesn't trigger if a permanent already on the battlefield becomes a land.
- If Scute Swarm leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, the token will still enter the battlefield as a copy of Scute Swarm, using Scute Swarm's copiable values from when it was last on the battlefield.
- The token copy will have Scute Swarm's ability. It will also be able to create copies of itself.
- The token copy won't copy counters or damage marked on Scute Swarm, nor will it copy other effects that have changed Scute Swarm's power, toughness, types, color, and so on. Normally, this means the token will simply be a Scute Swarm, but if any copy effects have affected the original Scute Swarm, the token will take those into account.
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