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Scriv, the Obligator
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Scriv, the Obligator

Legendary Creature — Inkling Bird
2WB
· WB
Flying, deathtouch Whenever Scriv enters or attacks, create a white Aura enchantment token named Contract attached to target creature an opponent controls. The token has enchant creature and "Whenever enchanted creature attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn if it's attacking one of your opponents. Otherwise, its controller loses 2 life."
Budget
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36 lands · total $97.66 budget: $100
W 18 B 19 C 5
Composition 20 Basics 7 Other Nonbasic 4 Fetch Lands 1 Bond Lands 1 Check Lands 1 Filter Lands 1 Pain Lands 1 Shock Lands

EDHREC hasn’t published enough decks for Scriv, the Obligator yet, so this manabase isn’t drawn from real-deck inclusion data. It’s ranked by a land-quality heuristic instead — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first, then basics split across the identity. A solid baseline to start from, not a tuned list.

Commander Staples

$4.89 7

Cycle Picks · Best to Worst

$92.77 9

Basics

$1.50 20

About This Manabase

Scriv, the Obligator is a WB commander with a WB color identity, so any land that produces only those colors is fair game. Our auto-built manabase above starts at the Optimized $100 tier. EDHREC doesn’t yet have deck data for Scriv, the Obligator, so picks are ranked by a land-quality heuristic — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first (shocks and untapped fixing, dropping to scry and tap-duals as the cap tightens), with the rest filled by basics split across the identity. The picker always includes Commander staples like Command Tower, Exotic Orchard, Path of Ancestry , and others when they fit your identity — these are nearly auto-includes in any EDH deck. From the catalogued cycles, the picker pulled Godless Shrine, Windswept Heath, Flooded Strand, Bloodstained Mire , plus 5 more for Scriv, the Obligator's manabase.

Pick a tier above to reshape the manabase. The Budget ($25) tier leans on basics and the cheapest utility lands; Optimized ($100) adds the best mid-priced duals and untapped fixing the budget allows; Unlimited drops the price cap so premium duals and in-identity fetches come in. Filter out tap-lands for faster decks, or pin yourself to fetchable lands for a fetch-heavy ramp shell.