The Scarab God
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}{B}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — God
- Power / toughness
- 5 / 5
- Set
- Amonkhet Invocations #53 (special)
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control.
{2}{U}{B}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.
The Scarab God has 10 printings, first in Hour of Devastation (2017). EDHREC ranks it #1,732 among Commander cards. It appears most in Teval, the Balanced Scale decks (14,934 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run The Scarab God
- Eternal Might - Aetherdrift Commander, led by Temmet, Naktamun's Will
Commanders that run The Scarab God most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Teval, the Balanced Scale: 14,934 decks
- Temmet, Naktamun's Will: 12,236 decks
- Hashaton, Scarab's Fist: 11,973 decks
- Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver: 11,367 decks
- Varina, Lich Queen: 7,401 decks
- Sidisi, Brood Tyrant: 2,440 decks
- Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen: 2,166 decks
- Gisa and Geralf: 1,910 decks
Often played with The Scarab God
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If this creature dies but leaves your graveyard before the next end step, it will remain in its new zone.
- : The “next end step” refers to the next end step that occurs, not the end step of the next turn. If this creature dies before a turn's end step (for example, during combat), it will be returned to its owner's hand at the beginning of that turn's end step.
- : The number of Zombies you control is counted as The Scarab God's first ability resolves. Players can try to change that number in response to the ability (perhaps by activating its second ability).
- : In a Two-Headed Giant game, The Scarab God's first ability causes the opposing team to lose life equal to twice the number of Zombies you control, although you scry only equal to the number of Zombies you control.