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The Skullspore Nexus

Legendary Artifact MV 8

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What it does

This spell costs X less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, create a green Fungus Dinosaur creature token with base power and toughness each equal to the total power of those creatures.

2, T: Double target creature's power until end of turn.

Combos with The Skullspore Nexus

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Oathsworn Vampire Phyrexian Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Nether Traitor Phyrexian Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • The Pride of Hull Clade Phyrexian Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite commander casts
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Ozox, the Clattering King Phyrexian Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Beifong's Bounty Hunters Altar of Dementia Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite landfall triggers
    • Infinite mill
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite self-mill
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Viscera Seer Reassembling Skeleton Pitiless Plunderer Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite scry 1
    • Infinite artifact ETB
    • Infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Tenacious Dead Pitiless Plunderer Viscera Seer Infinite
    • Infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite scry 1
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis Altar of Dementia Bridge from Below Infinite
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Near-infinite storm count
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Exile your library
    • Near-infinite mill
    • Near-infinite death triggers
    • Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Near-infinite tapped creature tokens
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2023-11-10

    The first step of casting a spell is to move it to the stack. If this causes the greatest power among creatures you control to change (for example, if you control a creature with "This creature's power is equal to the number of cards in your hand"), that new power will be used to determine the cost reduction.

  • 2023-11-10

    Use the power of the nontoken creatures that died as they last existed on the battlefield to determine the base power and toughness of the token created by the middle ability.

  • 2023-11-10

    To double a creature's power, that creature gets +X/+0, where X is that creature's power as The Skullspore Nexus's activated ability resolves.

  • 2023-11-10

    Once you determine the cost to cast The Skullspore Nexus, you may activate abilities to pay that cost. If the greatest power among creatures you control changes while activating mana abilities, the cost to cast The Skullspore Nexus remains what you previously determined.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes The Skullspore Nexus, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Naya 1 deck

Every version of The Skullspore Nexus

4 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 publishes none for some of them.

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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.