The 15 Most Valuable Scourge Cards

Form of the Dragon | Art by Carl Critchlow

Hey, everyone! Today, I'm wrapping up my coverage of the type-tastic Onslaught block with Scourge (SCG)! If you haven't seen my last two articles on Onslaught and Legions, I suggest you check them out before continuing.

Now, the two preceding sets were pretty laser-focused on creature type synergy, and while Scourge largely continued the pattern, it did a couple of things differently: it featured Dragons and synergy with cards with high mana values. Let's dive right in!

15. Goblin Warchief

Market Price:  $4.60

This and Carrion Feeder had the same value as of this writing. This gets to be on this list because its foil is more expensive, which might seem a little arbitrary, but hey, I write the articles, I make the rules! Despite being reprinted many times over the years, Warchief is still an important part of Goblin typal decks in Commander and Premodern. It's a shame it doesn't imbue other gobbos with stats, like Goblin Chieftain and Goblin King, but haste is still pretty fantastic on Krenko, Mob Boss.

14. Grip of Chaos

Market Price: $4.82

This is one of those kooky, chaotic (it says so in the name!) enchantments that certain red decks, like Norin the Wary and Zedruu the Greathearted, like to play in Commander. On the one hand, they mess up whole game plans and draw salt out of players like a 10-kilometer run. On the other, cards like this, Possibility Storm, and Confusion in the Ranks make it so that games with them in play are completely unique experiences.

This hasn't been reprinted.

13. Alpha Status

Market Price: $5.38

This wins the award for "card in Scourge that I have just learned existed". Status is like a Coat of Arms localized entirely within your enchanted creature, kind of like Stoneforge Masterwork, but much worse, because you can't move it around and it's gone once your target kicks the bucket.

Where does it see play? It slots nicely into typal Commander decks, like Lathril, Blade of the Elves and Shroofus Sproutsire, where it seems like a particularly fantastic way to make the most of his Saproling-generating ability. It's another member of the NBRC (Never Been Reprinted Club).

12. Lethal Vapors

Market Price: $6.73

Unlike Grip of Chaos, which can lead to hilarious and unexpected situations, this can suck all the life out of a game by ensuring no creatures stick around the battlefield. That is, until a hero gives up a turn to bin the Vapors. Now, Magic: The Gathering is all about finding ways to bend the rules of the game, and there exists a combo with this card that makes you skip the rest of your turns. Why would you do that, you might ask? With Teferi's Protection and Grand Abolisher, you'll also have protection from everything and an immovable life total until the game ends.

If nothing else, it's a great way to give yourself the opportunity to grab a sandwich while the table you're at is slogging through the 87th turn of the game.

11. Siege-Gang Commander

Market Price: $7.92

Another Goblin card, Commander is a classic "army in a can" that provides a ton of value in the form of tokens and Shock effects. It's a staple in typal Commander decks, like Krenko, Mob Boss, but it also shines in builds like Arabella, Abandoned Doll or Purphoros, God of the Forge that excel the more material you put into play. In these decks, you're probably packing Impact Tremors and analogs.

It's likewise part of the Premodern furniture, especially in Gruul () Goblin decks that only play green for Naturalize.

10. Eternal Dragon

Market Price:$7.93

This finished 7th on DougY's list of top Spirit Dragons over on EDHREC. As illustrious as the company Eternal Dragon finds itself in — I'm talking about Ugin, the Spirit Dragon, Kokusho, the Evening Star and the other original Kamigawa Dragons, and Vengeful Ancestor — it's in only about 9,000 EDHREC decks. That's fine for the card's value, though, because we have Premodern, where this is both a finisher and a set-up card that makes sure you hit your land drops in various Orzhov ()decks running the gamut from aggressive to controlling.

9. Pemmin's Aura

Market Price: $10.49

If an Aura lets you untap the enchanted creature repeatedly, chances are it's a busted combo piece. Pemmin's Aura is exactly that, combining with creatures that generate more than one colored mana to produce infinite resources to cast your spells:

You'll see it in Commander decks like Zaxara, the Exemplary, who forms a nice two-card combo with it to help power out various monstrous X spells, and Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy, who helps you go infinite with any old Birds of Paradise. It's also never been reprinted, save for The List, meaning you're going to have to draw from Scourge to enable your mana shenanigans.

8. Brain Freeze

Market Price: $10.55

One of the best combo finishers of all time is an all-star in at least four formats: Commander, Premodern, Vintage, and Cube! A lot of the time this kills you, it's going to be in conjunction with Underworld Breach and either Lotus Petal or Lion's Eye Diamond.

This ubiquity across multiple eras of competitive MTG explains why its foil printing is second only to number three on this list in value. It's also absolutely gorgeous with the classic blue border and unmistakable art by Tim Hildebrandt.

7. Xantid Swarm

Market Price: $12.48

This is one of those cards that evokes so much nostalgia for me. It was the early 2010s, and I was just getting starting to watch streams and videos of the Star City Games competitive Constructed circuit. I knew nothing about Legacy at the time, and I remember being so surprised that a combo deck that cast only spells in game 1 would bring in several copies of a 0/1 creature. It didn't take me long to figure out that if a combo player played this on turn 1 and got to attack with it on turn 2, then the game was probably over, with a flurry of Infernal Tutors and Tendrils of Agony being cast without fear!

Swarm is still kicking around sideboards of Oops! All Spells decks in Legacy today, but it's also found a home in various Premodern combo decks. It's more fun than Silence, anyway! Who doesn't love attacking with a zero-power creature and saying, "Bet that hurt."

6. Undead Warchief

Market Price: $13.53

Like Goblin Warchief and the other members of the cycle (Daru Warchief, Krosan Warchief, and Mistform Warchief), this gives you a discount on its creature type alongside another ability.

+2/+1 is a pretty big buff in a deck that likes to go wide with Zombie tokens, so this slots right into EDH typal decks led by Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver, The Scarab God, and Varina, Lich Queen, among others. It landed in 14th place in Chris Guest's 2025 article on the 20 best Zombie cards for Commander.

5. Faces of the Past

Market Price: $13.90

This enchantment dripping with typal combo potential shot up in value around February 2026, roughly coinciding with the release of Lorwyn Eclipsed. One of that set's Commander precons was headlined by Ashling, the Limitless, who lets you build a mana engine with Faces, Elementals that produce mana, like Flamebraider, Smokebraider, and Bramble Familiar, and the sacrifice triggers from the creatures you cast from your hand that Ashling gives evoke.

Before that, you had access to some niche combos and could generate mana in decks that simultaneously had sacrifice outlets, mana creatures, and a typal theme, so let's just say Faces found its purpose in 2026 after languishing in limbo for years. If only the rest of us were so lucky.

4. Decree of Justice

Market Price: $15.24

From niche combo piece to classic powerhouse, Decree of Justice is a powerful card that has definitely seen better days. I use to see it in Vintage or Legacy Cube packs. Heck, I used to pick it! But, like many old-bordered old-school finishers, the cycling sorcery is enjoying its retirement in Premodern control decks as a way to produce some threats through a Standstill that laugh at Humility.

3. Stifle

Market Price: $30.45

Around the same time I first saw Xantid Swarm enter the battlefield, my brain chemistry was irreparably altered by seeing my first stifled fetchland. Oh, that poor Scalding Tarn, it's gone to the graveyard and now they're a mana behind! I'm not certain this combo was still being played around this time, but I do remember learning about "Stiflenought" and how cards that do bad things to opponents can do good things for you.

Clever plays like that truly drew me into the rabbit hole of competitive Magic: The Gathering. Fortunately for Spikes everywhere, this is still very good in Legacy, and of course Premodern. It's also the most valuable foil in Scourge, because it's gorgeous and Legacy players love their bling.

2. Decree of Silence

Market Price: $33.40

If Lethal Vapors made it so that you didn't have to play the rest of the game, Decree of Silence locks your opponents out of theirs, alongside Solemnity.

Like many expensive, wordy enchantments, this hasn't been reprinted, and it's also played in Azorius () Replenish decks in Premodern as a lock piece, so it sits comfortably near the top of the value rankings for Scourge. As an aside, I love this cycle, which includes Decree of Pain, Decree of Annihilation, and Decree of Savagery, because these are pretty flexible, modern designs for cards that came out in 2003.

1. Sliver Overlord

Market Price: $42.20

The second most popular Sliver typal commander, according to EDHREC, also lords it over this list. Planting a payoff for a theme explored in the previous set in a block was par for the course in those days, and this truly was a great reward for putting a bunch of Slivers from Legions into the same deck. Even when they're not leading the deck, you probably still want to play this in the 99 of The First Sliver, Sliver Queen, and Sliver Hivelord.

Thanks for Going on an Ex-Scourge-on with Me!

That's it for Onslaught block and its many, many Goblins, Zombies, and other classic creature types. Join me soon for the debut of a new border design and a shift in focus from critters to artifacts. That's right! It's time for Mirrodin to shine. Get it? Because Mirrodin is made of metal and has five suns?