Skeletal Scrying
Mana cost {X}{B}.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard.
You draw X cards and you lose X life.
Skeletal Scrying is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Odyssey printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€5.34) · TCGplayer ($3.86) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €4.38 and €5.76 in that time.
How often Skeletal Scrying is played
Skeletal Scrying is maindecked in 14 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (11%), averaging 1.8 copies; used by 2 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 75 decks that can cast black cards, 14 of them play it (19%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Skeletal Scrying
- BW Control: Instant card draw: exile X cards from your graveyard, draw X cards and lose X life. Cast it in the opponent's end step and keep Eternal Dragon in the graveyard; exile cycled Decrees, cycling lands and spent removal instead.
- Contamination: {X}{B}, instant: exile X cards from your graveyard to draw X and lose X life. It is the deck's card advantage, and the cards you exile can be the creature cards that would stop Nether Spirit from returning.
Tournament decks with Skeletal Scrying
- P-Deadguy Ale: 2nd Place at Online Monthly (1× mainboard)
- Contamination: 1st Place at UC Late Night (3× mainboard)
- Contamination: 6th Place at Premodern & Hooters 9 (2× mainboard)
- Mono Black: 10th Place at Bogardan War II (2× mainboard)
- Rogue: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (1× mainboard)
- Junk Nightmare: 1st Place at Premodern Monthly (1× mainboard)
- BR Carnophage Ponza: 3rd Place at Torneo @ Comix Café (1× mainboard)
- Darigaaz Midrange Sideboard: 3rd Place at Liga Feijoada 2026 #8 (1× mainboard)
- The Solution: 1st Place at Polish Premodern Nationals (2× mainboard)
- Mono B Control: 7th Place at Premodern & Hooters 8th Edition (2× mainboard)
- Black Contamination: 3rd Place at PREM Brescia (3× mainboard)
- BG Rack: 3rd Place at Lega Milano 3/12 (1× mainboard)
- Dromar Control: 1st Place at Monthly Premodern Beagá (2× mainboard)
- BW Control: 5th Place at LWPP Maio/2026 Top8 (3× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Skeletal Scrying
- Coffers Control (3×)
