The Skullspore Nexus
The Skullspore Nexus: Legendary Artifact, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {6}{G}{G}
- Mana value
- 8
- Type
- Legendary Artifact
- Colour identity
- Green (G)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
- Released
- 2023-11-17
- Collector number
- 212
- Artist
- Daarken
- Keywords
- Double
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About The Skullspore Nexus
The Skullspore Nexus is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare green legendary artifact from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI), an expansion set released in November 2023. It is collector number 212 in that set, with art by Daarken. It costs {6}{G}{G} (six generic and two green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 8. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $11.50 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, create a green Fungus Dinosaur creature token with base power and toughness each equal to the total power of those creatures.
{2}, {T}: Double target creature's power until end of turn.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $11.50 (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 The Skullspore Nexus by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of The Skullspore Nexus
The Skullspore Nexus has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) #340 | Mythic | 2023 |
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos (PLCI) #212p | Mythic | 2023 |
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos (PLCI) #212s | Mythic | 2023 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to The Skullspore Nexus, newest first.
- The first step of casting a spell is to move it to the stack. If this causes the greatest power among creatures you control to change (for example, if you control a creature with "This creature's power is equal to the number of cards in your hand"), that new power will be used to determine the cost reduction.
- Use the power of the nontoken creatures that died as they last existed on the battlefield to determine the base power and toughness of the token created by the middle ability.
- To double a creature's power, that creature gets +X/+0, where X is that creature's power as The Skullspore Nexus's activated ability resolves.
- Once you determine the cost to cast The Skullspore Nexus, you may activate abilities to pay that cost. If the greatest power among creatures you control changes while activating mana abilities, the cost to cast The Skullspore Nexus remains what you previously determined.
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