Skeleton Key
- Mana cost
- {1}
- Type
- Artifact — Equipment
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad #263 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.34 USD
Equipped creature has skulk. (It can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
Equip {2}
Skeleton Key has 1 printing, first in Shadows over Innistrad (2016). EDHREC ranks it #8,548 among Commander cards. It appears most in Odric, Lunarch Marshal decks (1,377 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Skeleton Key most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Odric, Lunarch Marshal: 1,377 decks
- Tinybones, the Pickpocket: 885 decks
- Loot, the Anomaly: 577 decks
- Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist: 446 decks
- Doran, the Siege Tower: 336 decks
- The Master, Mesmerist: 303 decks
- Neyam Shai Murad: 254 decks
- Charix, the Raging Isle: 235 decks
Often played with Skeleton Key
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Skulk matters only as blockers are chosen. Modifying either creature’s power after blockers are chosen won’t cause the attacking creature to become unblocked.
- : If you cause a creature to have 0 power or less, use the actual value (which may be negative) to determine whether it can block or be blocked. A creature with skulk and 0 or less power most likely won’t be blocked, but it won’t deal combat damage and won’t trigger any abilities that trigger when combat damage is dealt.