---
name: "Scab-Clan Berserker"
mana_cost: "{1}{R}{R}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Creature — Human Berserker"
colors: []
color_identity: ["R"]
keywords: ["Renown", "Haste"]
set: "PIO"
set_name: "Pioneer Masters"
collector_number: "154"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Dave Kendall"
oracle_id: "d4f659ba-c277-47a2-8b95-ce81ddac34fb"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/scab-clan-berserker-pio"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Scab-Clan Berserker
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{R}{R}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Creature — Human Berserker
- **Keywords:** Renown, Haste

## Oracle Text
Haste
Renown 1 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, if this creature is renowned, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Acolyte of the Inferno](/printing/acolyte-of-the-inferno-ori.md) — Creature — Human Monk
2. [Scab-Clan Mauler](/printing/scab-clan-mauler-rvr.md) — Creature — Human Berserker
3. [Vulshok Berserker](/printing/vulshok-berserker-ddi.md) — Creature — Human Berserker
4. [Kytheon's Irregulars](/printing/kytheons-irregulars-gn2.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
5. [Goblin Glory Chaser](/printing/goblin-glory-chaser-ddt.md) — Creature — Goblin Warrior
6. [Hardened Berserker](/printing/hardened-berserker-dtk.md) — Creature — Human Berserker

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Pioneer Masters (PIO) #154
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Dave Kendall
- **Total Printings:** 3 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2015-06-22)* If a renown ability triggers, but the creature leaves the battlefield before that ability resolves, the creature doesn’t become renowned. Any ability that triggers “whenever a creature becomes renowned” won’t trigger.
- *(2015-06-22)* If a creature with renown deals combat damage to its controller because that damage was redirected, renown will trigger.
- *(2015-06-22)* Renown won’t trigger when a creature deals combat damage to a planeswalker or another creature. It also won’t trigger when a creature deals noncombat damage to a player.