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Scion of Halaster
Oracle Text
Commander creatures you own have "The first time you would draw a card each turn, instead look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard and the other back on top of your library. Then draw a card."
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Scion of Halaster is a quintessential value Background, turning your commander into a refined self-mill and selection engine rather than a raw card-draw machine. In Commander, it best supports grindy value or control shells, especially commanders that care about the graveyard, recursion, or top-of-library manipulation. Instead of simply drawing, you surveil-adjacent through the top two cards every turn, stocking the graveyard with whatever you can reuse and keeping the best card on top, which improves consistency and fuels cards like reanimation spells, delve effects, or creatures with flashback-style utility. It pairs especially well with commanders that trigger from casting from the graveyard, or with topdeck synergies such as scry, shuffle effects, and fetch lands to reset bad reveals. As a Background, it quietly rewards patience: the longer the game goes, the more it smooths draws while building a resource-rich graveyard for a deliberate, attrition-focused plan.
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Character Background
Scion of Halaster is a quintessential value Background, turning your commander into a refined self-mill and selection engine rather than a raw card-draw machine. In Commander, it best supports grindy value or control shells, especially commanders that care about the graveyard, recursion, or top-of-library manipulation. Instead of simply drawing, you surveil-adjacent through the top two cards every turn, stocking the graveyard with whatever you can reuse and keeping the best card on top, which improves consistency and fuels cards like reanimation spells, delve effects, or creatures with flashback-style utility. It pairs especially well with commanders that trigger from casting from the graveyard, or with topdeck synergies such as scry, shuffle effects, and fetch lands to reset bad reveals. As a Background, it quietly rewards patience: the longer the game goes, the more it smooths draws while building a resource-rich graveyard for a deliberate, attrition-focused plan.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-21 19:20:44 UTC