The Skullspore Nexus
Mana Cost:
Type: Legendary Artifact
Oracle Text:
This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, create a green Fungus Dinosaur creature token with base power and toughness each equal to the total power of those creatures.
{2}, {T}: Double target creature's power until end of turn.
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: mythic
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Price ( USD): $6.94
USD: $6.94 · EUR: €6.80
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Character Background
The Skullspore Nexus is a classic high-end value engine that rewards you for building around oversized creatures and death triggers, making it especially strong in midrange and ramp shells rather than pure aggro or control. Its cost reduction scales with your biggest creature, so accelerating out a large threat can let you deploy this legendary artifact far earlier than six mana suggests. Once online, it turns every nontoken nontoken creature death into a massive Fungus Dinosaur, converting removal, combat trades, and sacrifice outlets into board presence. That makes it excellent with cards that intentionally cash in creatures, especially those with power boosts or graveyard recursion. The activated ability also lets you push damage through by doubling a key attacker’s power, which pairs well with tramplers or evasion. In deckbuilding, prioritize creatures with naturally high power, cards that can die profitably, and ways to sacrifice at instant speed so the Nexus keeps snowballing value every turn.
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