Species Specialist
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature of the chosen type dies, you may draw a card.
Combos with Species Specialist
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- The Locust God Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite colorless mana
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- The Locust God Carrion Feeder Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- The Locust God Kaervek, the Spiteful Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- The Locust God Night of Souls' Betrayal Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- The Locust God Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite colored mana
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- The Locust God Heartless Summoning Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- The Locust God Altar of Dementia Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite mill
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Nadir Kraken Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite colorless mana
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2020-04-17
If Species Specialist happens to have the chosen creature type, its ability triggers when it dies.
- 2020-04-17
If a creature of the chosen type dies at the same time as Species Specialist, its ability triggers for that creature.
- 2020-04-17
You must choose an existing creature type, such as Human or Warrior. Card types such as artifact and supertypes such as legendary can’t be chosen.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Species Specialist, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marrow-Gnawer | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 1 deck
Every version of Species Specialist
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.
Borderless
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $10.20
- Foil
- $10.51
- Normal
- $10.70
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Species Specialist — 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.
