Skrelv's Hive
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and "This token can't block."
Corrupted — As long as an opponent has three or more poison counters, creatures you control with toxic have lifelink.
Rulings
7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2023-02-04
Any other effects of that damage, such as life gain from lifelink, still apply.
- 2023-02-04
Toxic doesn't change the amount of combat damage a creature deals. For example, if a 2/2 creature with toxic 1 deals combat damage to a player, that creature will deal 2 damage. The results of that damage are the player loses 2 life and gets a poison counter.
- 2023-02-04
Multiple instances of toxic are cumulative. For example, if a creature has toxic 2 and gains toxic 1 due to another effect, combat damage that creature deals to a player will cause that player to get 3 poison counters.
- 2023-02-04
If a creature with toxic deals combat damage to a creature or planeswalker, or if it deals noncombat damage, toxic has no effect and no player gets poison counters.
- 2023-02-04
A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game. This is a state-based action and doesn't use the stack. In other words, it happens immediately and players can't respond to it, just like a player losing the game due to having 0 or less life.
- 2023-02-04
Conversely, replacement effects that apply to the number of counters put on a player can modify the counters placed this way. For example, Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider's last two abilities can apply to counters placed this way.
- 2023-02-04
Damage dealt by a creature with toxic grants the same number of counters regardless of how much damage is dealt. Notably, if a replacement effect modifies the damage in some way (such as that of Gratuitous Violence), the number of counters given remains unchanged.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Skrelv's Hive, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jace, Multiverse Architect | 1 | 0 | — |
| Silverquill, the Disputant | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Orzhov 1 deck
- Four-Color (no Green) 1 deck
Every version of Skrelv's Hive
5 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.

- Normal
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- Normal
- $2.40
- Foil
- $3.28

Promo
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos
- Normal
- $2.65
- Foil
- $3.23

Promo
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos
- Foil
- $5.11

Extended Art
- Normal
- $2.15
- Foil
- $3.37
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Skrelv's Hive — 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.