Possessed Skaab
Creature — Zombie · 
Possessed Skaab is part of 158 combos legal in Commander. Often combined with Ghostly Flicker and Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward.
Possessed Skaab
Creature — Zombie
When this creature enters, return target instant, sorcery, or creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
If this creature would die, exile it instead.
- Mana value
- 5
- Power/Toughness
- 3/2
- Color identity
Frequently combined with
The cards that most often join Possessed Skaab in its 100 most popular combos.
Roles in combos
Possessed Skaab can stand in for these generic cards, so it also fits the combos that require them.
What Possessed Skaab provides to the combos it is part of.
- Creature with ETB: "Return card from GY to hand"
Combos with Possessed Skaab
158 combos legal in Commander.
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Ghostly Flicker
Peregrine Drake
Possessed Skaab
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite mana lands you control can produce
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite blinking
Infinite landfall triggers
Infinite untap of lands you control
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Displace
Possessed Skaab
Peregrine Drake
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite mana lands you control can produce
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite blinking
Infinite landfall triggers
Infinite untap of lands you control
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Illusionist's Stratagem
Peregrine Drake
Possessed Skaab
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Near-infinite landfall triggers
Infinite card draw
Infinite draw triggers
Near-infinite creature LTB
Near-infinite blinking
Near-infinite magecraft triggers
Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce
Near-infinite storm count
Near-infinite untap of lands you control
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Ghostly Flicker
Arcane Melee
Possessed Skaab
Results in combo:
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite landfall triggers
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite storm count
Color Identity: B, G, U
Cards in combo:
Doppelgang
Possessed Skaab
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite creature tokens
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite landfall triggers
Infinite copies of all permanents
Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand
Return all creature cards from your graveyard to your hand
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Turnabout
Ghostly Flicker
Possessed Skaab
Shipwreck Dowser
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite untap of permanents you control
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite blinking
Infinite landfall triggers
Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Turnabout
Ghostly Flicker
Possessed Skaab
Archaeomancer
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite untap of permanents you control
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite blinking
Infinite landfall triggers
Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Turnabout
Ghostly Flicker
Salvager of Secrets
Possessed Skaab
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite untap of permanents you control
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite blinking
Infinite landfall triggers
Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Turnabout
Ghostly Flicker
Possessed Skaab
Mnemonic Wall
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite untap of permanents you control
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite blinking
Infinite landfall triggers
Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Turnabout
Ghostly Flicker
Possessed Skaab
Scrivener
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite untap of permanents you control
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite blinking
Infinite landfall triggers
Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Displace
Possessed Skaab
Palinchron
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite mana lands you control can produce
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite blinking
Infinite landfall triggers
Infinite untap of lands you control
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Displacer Kitten
Frantic Search
Dark Ritual
Possessed Skaab
Results in combo:
Infinite self-discard triggers
Near-infinite creature ETB
Infinite draw triggers
Infinite looting
Near-infinite storm count
Near-infinite creature LTB
Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce
Near-infinite magecraft triggers
Near-infinite black mana
Near-infinite untap of lands you control
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Displace
Possessed Skaab
Great Whale
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite mana lands you control can produce
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite blinking
Infinite landfall triggers
Infinite untap of lands you control
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Saw in Half
Sacrifice
Possessed Skaab
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite storm count
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite black mana
Color Identity: W, U, B
Cards in combo:
Brago, King Eternal
Cyclonic Rift
Possessed Skaab
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Return all nonland permanents opponents control to their hand on each of your turns
Color Identity: W, U, B
Cards in combo:
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
Ghostly Flicker
Possessed Skaab
+3 other prerequisites
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite creature tokens
Infinite blinking of nonland permanents
Infinite magecraft triggers
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Ghostly Flicker
Possessed Skaab
Mindsplice Apparatus
Results in combo:
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite landfall triggers
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite storm count
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Saw in Half
Culling the Weak
Possessed Skaab
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite death triggers
Infinite storm count
Infinite magecraft triggers
Color Identity: W, U, B
Cards in combo:
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
Possessed Skaab
Displace
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite creature tokens
Infinite blinking of nonland permanents
Infinite magecraft triggers
Color Identity: W, U, B
Cards in combo:
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
Possessed Skaab
Essence Flux
+3 other prerequisites
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite creature tokens
Infinite blinking of nonland permanents
Infinite magecraft triggers
