Skeleton Crew
Skeleton Crew: Creature - Skeleton Pirate, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Creature - Skeleton Pirate
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Power / toughness
- 3/3
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
- Released
- 2023-11-17
- Collector number
- 85
- Artist
- Camille Alquier
- Commander rank
- 5,696 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Skeleton Crew
Skeleton Crew is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black creature from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC), a Commander product released in November 2023. It is collector number 85 in that set, with art by Camille Alquier. It costs {3}{B} (three generic and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 3/3 creature. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.35 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Each other creature you control that's a Skeleton or Pirate gets +1/+1.
Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Skeleton Pirate creature token. (This ability triggers only from the battlefield.)
{5}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.35 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Skeleton Crew 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 Skeleton Crew
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) #53 | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Skeleton Crew, newest first.
- Resolving Skeleton Crew's last ability won't cause its second ability to trigger.
- If two or more creature cards leave your graveyard as a single event, Skeleton Crew's second ability will trigger once. If they leave your graveyard as separate events, it will trigger once for each event.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Skeleton Crew is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.