Scute Swarm

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Gidgetimer on How will this trigger with …

4 days ago

You play the land and the Scute Swarm triggers three times, putting three abilities to copy itself on the stack. Each trigger makes one copy. You end up with 4 total Scute Swarms.

By the time any of the three triggers resolve the land has already entered and will not trigger any of the copies.

xxfreaknricanxx on How will this trigger with …

5 days ago

I have a scute swarm, ancient greenwarden and a Virtue of Knowledge in play.i play a single land to trigger land fall how many scute swarms of made for the first trigger. How would this trigger doe future runes with more scute swarms in the table.

Scute Swarm Ancient Greenwarden Virtue of Knowledge

Gidgetimer on Scute Swarm and Callidus Assassin …

4 months ago

Copiable values of an object are the printed values of the object as modified by previous copy effects, facedown status, and replacement effects that set P/T. Callidus Assassin's own copy effect made it exactly Scute Swarm with the added ability "When this creature enters the battlefield, destroy up to one other target creature with the same name as this creature." So the token copies made by the landfall ability are exactly Scute Swarm with the added ability "When this creature enters the battlefield, destroy up to one other target creature with the same name as this creature."

707.2. When copying an object, the copy acquires the copiable values of the original object’s characteristics and, for an object on the stack, choices made when casting or activating it (mode, targets, the value of X, whether it was kicked, how it will affect multiple targets, and so on). The copiable values are the values derived from the text printed on the object (that text being name, mana cost, color indicator, card type, subtype, supertype, rules text, power, toughness, and/or loyalty), as modified by other copy effects, by its face-down status, and by “as . . . enters the battlefield” and “as . . . is turned face up” abilities that set power and toughness (and may also set additional characteristics). Other effects (including type-changing and text-changing effects), status, counters, and stickers are not copied.

OxygenDestroyer65 on Scute Swarm and Callidus Assassin …

4 months ago

If I cast Callidus Assassin and destroy a Scute Swarm, how do I handle the copies that will be created when I put lands onto the battlefield if I control 6 or more lands? Do I create a copy of the "scute" Callidus, which then enters as a copy of something else and destroys whatever I decide to copy? I don't think each Callidus copy retains the Scute's ability to copy itself, except the first one. I might be overcomplicating this. Thank you!

mudkipdude on Card creation challenge

5 months ago

Limitless feast

Legendary sorcery

Recursion 3

Create a food token

When a void counter is removed off this card while it is exile, create a copy of it with three void counters and a feast counter. If this card has a feast counter on it, the copy gets an additional feast counter. If this card has 2 feast counters on it, this ability doesn’t activate.

Wordy. I love the cards that create copies of themself, with the ability that makes the copy, like Scute Swarm, this card, Compy Swarm and Progenitor Mimic. So let’s see one of those

Crow_Umbra on Smeagol will guide you | **Primer v2.0**

10 months ago

Hi there, thank you for reaching out. I hope my suggestions will be helpful, but here are some things I noticed when I took a look at your deck:

• I know that your commander can steal opponents' lands, but I think you are kind of low on your own land count. Personally, I would suggest bumping up to 35-36, especially since your average cmc is closer to 3.

• I think you can cut Voracious Fell Beast all together, or replace it with something like Fleshbag Marauder, Plaguecrafter, or Merciless Executioner for a cheaper version of a similar effect.

• Gnawing Vermin can likely be replaced by a ramp spell like Three Visits, Nature's Lore, Farseek, or Rampant Growth. Its effect isn't super impactful, even as a sacrifice target.

• You can probably swap out Fall of Gil-galad and Oath of the Grey Host for a couple more effects that let you sacrifice your own creatures like Ashnod's Altar, Plumb the Forbidden, Yahenni, Undying Partisan, Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, or Phyrexian Altar, depending on your budget.

• I would recommend swapping out Rampaging Brontodon with Tireless Provisioner, Scute Swarm, or Tireless Tracker. All are lower on the mana curve, and still work with the landfall stuff you want to do.

• Depending on your budget, you can likely swap Butcher of Malakir out for Bastion of Remembrance, Poison-Tip Archer, Grave Pact, or Dictate of Erebos. The enchantments are a bit more resistant to removal and board wipes than creatures, and all options are lower on your mana curve to come down sooner.

If you haven't already, I would recommend checking out EDHREC's page on Smeagol, Helpful Guide, here are the pages for a Sacrifice themed deck and a more Landfall focused deck. These pages can give you an idea of which effects overlap between the two strats, and what might be within your budget.

I hope these suggestions were helpful.

shaynejamesgold on Gruul Aid Jihad [Omnath, Locus of Rage]

10 months ago

Here's some suggestion / Upgrades

Ashaya, Soul of the Wild, Dryad Arbor, Quirion Ranger, Scapeshift, Cultivator Colossus, Kodama of the East Tree, Scute Swarm, Awaken the Woods, Yedora, Grave Gardener

wallisface on GW Tokens

11 months ago

Some thoughts:

• Modern decks typically can’t run more than 4 cards costing 4-or-more mana… you’ve got a whopping 10. This is going to lead to your deck being super slow/clumsy. I’d heavily suggest lowering you lr curve.

• Scute Swarm is only really worthwhile if you can easily get to 6 lands (and then reliably play more lands every turn). Currently you’re not even likely to hit your 6th land until turn 9-10, and there’s no way a game ever goes that long (you should be deck building assuming one player represents a winning position by turn 5).