Oracle text
This creature enters with three oil counters on it.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may remove an oil counter from this creature. When you do, target creature you control gains your choice of flying, vigilance, deathtouch, or lifelink until end of turn.
Mox strategy
Atraxa’s Skitterfang is a solid midgame utility creature. Its best use is in decks that want flexible combat tricks and repeated value from oil counters, especially if you can add or recur counters.
It’s strongest when:
- You need evasive pressure: flying helps push damage through
- You want combat stabilization: deathtouch or lifelink can swing races
- You can leverage counter support: proliferate, oil-counter synergies, or blink/reanimation to reuse the body
Good synergies:
- Proliferate effects to help maintain oil counters
- Oil/counter-matter cards that care about counters being present
- Token or go-wide decks that appreciate a cheap source of flying, vigilance, deathtouch, or lifelink on key attackers
Key gameplay role:
- Flexible attacker/blocker that can adapt each combat
- Provides incremental advantage rather than raw power
- Best in slower decks that want versatility over efficiency
Overall: playable but modest; a useful role-player in counter-based or midrange decks, not usually a standalone bomb.
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Prices
$0.13market (USD)
USD$0.13
USD Foil$0.12
EUR€0.19
EUR Foil€0.21
MTGO Tix0.03 Tix
Format legality
- standard—
- pioneerLegal
- modernLegal
- legacyLegal
- vintageLegal
- commanderLegal
- pauper—
- brawlLegal
- historicLegal
- alchemy—
- oathbreakerLegal