Scorpion, Seething Striker
Legendary Creature — Scorpion Human Villain
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, target creature you control connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
The scorpion is the natural predator of the spider, and so Mac Gargan hunts.
3 / 3
- Set
- Marvel's Spider-Man (SPM #64)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 4
- Released
- 2025-09-26
- Artist
- Simon Dominic
- EDHREC rank
- #11,326
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Roxxon Brutes
- Iron Monger, Sadistic Tycoon
- Madame Masque
- Moonstone, Harsh Mistress
- Construct a Cosmic Cube
- Body Launderer
- Archpriest of Shadows
- Daily Bugle Newspaper
- Lethal Scheme
- M.O.D.O.K., Evil Intellect
- Scurrilous Sentry
- Grave Titan
- Scorpion's Sting
- Spider-Man Noir
- Vashta Nerada
- Zombify
- Hero's Downfall
- Archenemy's Charm
- Victimize
- Villainous Wrath
- Merciless Executioner
- Lethal Protection
- Tragic Slip
- Undertaker
- Wayfarer's Bauble
- Nowhere to Run
- Hagra Constrictor
- Fell Beast of Mordor
- Alpharael, Stonechosen
- Vincent Valentine
- Accursed Marauder
- Mechanical Mobster
- Dread Return
- Umbral Collar Zealot
- Ancient Brass Dragon
- Rise of the Dark Realms
- Massacre Girl
- Night's Whisper
- The Masamune
- Maha, Its Feathers Night
- Revel in Riches
- Minion Missile
- Damocles Base, Sword of Kang
- White Widow, Yelena Belova
- Black Widow, Deadly Hunter
- Whisper, Blood Liturgist
- Fleshbag Marauder
- Age of Ultron
- Fight On!
- Persistent Specimen
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Sol Ring
- Roxxon Brutes
- Madame Masque
- Moonstone, Harsh Mistress
- Iron Monger, Sadistic Tycoon
- Arcane Signet
- Dark Ritual
- Victimize
- Construct a Cosmic Cube
- Feed the Swarm
- Tragic Slip
- Body Launderer
- Defile
- Grave Titan
- Night's Whisper
- Lethal Scheme
- Archpriest of Shadows
- Accursed Marauder
- Bojuka Bog
- Sign in Blood
- M.O.D.O.K., Evil Intellect
- Daily Bugle Newspaper
- Scurrilous Sentry
- Archenemy's Charm
- Hero's Downfall
- Wayfarer's Bauble
- Deadly Dispute
- Blood Artist
- Merciless Executioner
- Spider-Man Noir
- Scorpion's Sting
- Zombify
- Mind Stone
- Vashta Nerada
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Fleshbag Marauder
- Dread Return
- Jet Medallion
- Rise of the Dark Realms
- Villainous Wrath
- Nowhere to Run
- Lethal Protection
- Charcoal Diamond
- Reassembling Skeleton
- Undertaker
- Vincent Valentine
- Umbral Collar Zealot
- Morbid Opportunist
- Bontu's Monument
Format legality
Rulings
- 2025-09-19
If a resolving spell or ability instructs a specific creature to connive but that creature has left the battlefield, the creature still connives. If you discard a nonland card this way, you won't put a +1/+1 counter on anything. Abilities that trigger "when [that creature] connives" will trigger.
- 2025-09-19
If no card is discarded, most likely because that player's hand is empty and an effect says they can't draw cards, the conniving creature does not receive a +1/+1 counter.
- 2025-09-19
Once an ability that causes a creature to connive begins to resolve, no player may take any other actions until it's done. Notably, opponents can't try to remove the conniving creature after you discard a nonland card but before it receives a counter.