Lecturing Scornmage SOS 0087 · uncommon
Lecturing Scornmage · {B} · Creature — Human Warlock · Repartee — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. · Power / toughness: 1/1 · "I expected better from you."
- Price
- from $0.171 printing
- Win rate
- 58.7% GIH 22,332 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickPlay it before your targeting spells to accumulate counters from repartee.
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 13,099 wins in 22,332 card-in-hand instances.
20,573 distinct games · 7,193 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026.
17Lands file dated Jun 5, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Play it before your targeting spells to accumulate counters from repartee.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Start with inexpensive creatures, then use creature-targeting spells to grow the team and force damage through. Look for support such as Elite Interceptor // Rejoinder and Dissection Practice.
- What to take next
- Practice targets a creature and triggers Scornmage before resolving. Its life gain can also bridge into infusion effects.
- Wrong pick
- A pile of tricks needs enough creatures. Repartee does not trigger from an activated ability or an Aura spell.
- Mana & splash
- Count the colored sources needed to cast this card on time; a synergy payoff is not a reason to weaken an otherwise consistent mana base.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Play it before your targeting spells to accumulate counters from repartee.
Draft data
+3.3 pp vs 55.4% average · 22,332 instances
Premier Draft · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · average from 582,914 games
#64 of 320 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 4.0 on average (54,230 packs).
9 of 42 black cards · 4 of 17 black uncommon cards.
12,002.3 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 61.6% · 9,894 instances
● Drawn later 56.3% · 12,438 instances
In hand 58.7% · 22,332 instances
Unseen in deck 57.4% · 30,938 instances
+1.2 percentage points when drawn
Compared with black cards
Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.
Best decks for it
no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum
Silverquill Repartee Aggro WB60.7%16,523 instancesWitherbloom Lifegain Swarm BG52.9%1,810 instancesBlue–Black UB36.4%11 instances · under 100Black–Red BR33.3%18 instances · under 100Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (58.7% · 22,332 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Best with
Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.
Last Gasp+4.0 pp22,130 games with both in the deck · 5,168 both drawnKillian's Confidence+3.5 pp14,019 games with both in the deck · 3,011 both drawnEager Glyphmage+3.6 pp12,865 games with both in the deck · 2,747 both drawnHow to read this
Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.
At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.
Where it sits in the set
Above 80% of 320 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster · prerelease-silverquill · prerelease-witherbloom | $0.17 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · Play Booster | $0.26 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 33 packs (3.00%) · 30.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 298 packs (0.34%) · 9.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 30 packs (3.38%) · 64.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a prerelease-silverquill · Modeled · About 1 in 9 packs (11.11%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a prerelease-witherbloom · Modeled · About 1 in 9 packs (11.11%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play Booster | Uncommons | 100% per position | Uncommons |
| Play Booster | Wildcard of any rarity | 100% | Wildcard of any rarity |
| Play Booster | Traditional foil of any rarity | 100% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil uncommons | 100% per position | Traditional foil uncommons |
Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven ↗ · Oct 29, 2026
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Tuan Duong Chu, SOS 87 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Silverquill Repartee Aggro cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗