Skeleton Crew

Skeleton Crew

{3}{B}Creature — Skeleton Pirate3/3

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Each other creature you control that's a Skeleton or Pirate gets +1/+1.

Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Skeleton Pirate creature token. (This ability triggers only from the battlefield.)

{5}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

What it does

Tagged as Recursion · Tokens — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.

Get it in a precon

One preconstructed deck includes this card.

Official rulings

  1. Resolving Skeleton Crew's last ability won't cause its second ability to trigger. (2023-11-10)
  2. If two or more creature cards leave your graveyard as a single event, Skeleton Crew's second ability will trigger once. If they leave your graveyard as separate events, it will trigger once for each event. (2023-11-10)

Printings & prices

Every set Skeleton Crew has been printed in, with the art, the finishes and the market price of each — the headline price above is the cheapest of these.

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