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Scathing Shadelock // Venomous Words SOS 0098 · uncommon

Scathing Shadelock · {4}{B} · Creature — Snake Warlock · At the beginning of your first main phase, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.) · Power / toughness: 4/6 // Venomous Words · {B} · Sorcery · Target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Scathing Shadelock · {4}{B} · Creature — Snake Warlock · At the beginning of your first main phase, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.) · Power / toughness: 4/6

Venomous Words · {B} · Sorcery · Target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Price
from $0.161 printing
Win rate
52.6% GIH 10,521 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 5,533 wins in 10,521 card-in-hand instances.

10,154 distinct games · 4,032 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026.

17Lands file dated Jun 5, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

52.6%when drawn (GIH)

−2.8 pp vs 55.4% average · 10,521 instances

Premier Draft · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · average from 582,914 games

#251 of 320 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 5.0 on average (68,282 packs).

34 of 42 black cards · 12 of 17 black uncommon cards.

Taken at pick7.38,100 picks
Makes the deck55.8%8,100 picks with known usage
When played53.2%23,913.2 matchesBenched 55.5%
17,468.8 matches
When drawn52.6%10,521 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 51.4% · 4,192 instances
● Drawn later 53.4% · 6,329 instances

In hand 52.6% · 10,521 instances
Unseen in deck 54.0% · 14,458 instances
−1.4 percentage points when drawn

Compared with black cards

Win rate when drawn52.6%10,521 instances34 of 42
Opening hand51.4%4,192 instances31 of 42
Drawn later53.4%6,329 instances35 of 42
In the deck53.5%25,077 instances33 of 46
Without seeing it54.0%14,458 instances31 of 44
Improvement when drawn−1.4 pp10,521 instances / 14,458 instances35 of 42
When benched55.5%17,468.8 matches13 of 47
Makes the deck55.8%8,100 picks with known usage31 of 47
Pick (last seen)5.068,282 packs27 of 47
Taken at7.38,100 picks29 of 47

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

Witherbloom Lifegain Swarm BG53.8%2,455 instancesSilverquill Repartee Aggro WB53.7%5,364 instancesBlue–Black UB57.7%26 instances · under 100Black–Red BR57.1%7 instances · under 100

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (52.6% · 10,521 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Usually played with

Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.

Last Gasp11,079 games with both in the deckWander Off10,056 games with both in the deckMelancholic Poet9,980 games with both in the deck
How 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 22% of 320 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

SOS 0098 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · prerelease-silverquill · prerelease-witherbloom$0.16
FoilCollector Booster · Play Booster$0.31

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.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Play BoosterUncommons100% per positionUncommons
Play BoosterWildcard of any rarity100%Wildcard of any rarity
Play BoosterTraditional foil of any rarity100%Traditional foil of any rarity
Collector BoosterTraditional foil uncommons100% per positionTraditional 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
Loïc Canavaggia, SOS 98 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Regular printing printings →
Sources
Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗