Skaab Ruinator
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile three creature cards from your graveyard.
Flying
You may cast this card from your graveyard.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2011-09-22
Skaab Ruinator is on the stack when you pay its costs. It can't be exiled to pay for itself.
- 2011-09-22
You must exile three creature cards from your graveyard no matter what zone you're casting Skaab Ruinator from.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Skaab Ruinator, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimone, Mystery Unraveler | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Simic 1 deck
Every version of Skaab Ruinator
2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
- Normal
- $0.27

Innistrad
- Normal
- $0.42
- Foil
- $3.12
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Skaab Ruinator — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.