---
name: "Screaming Swarm"
mana_cost: "{5}{U}"
cmc: 6
type_line: "Creature — Bird Horror"
colors: ["U"]
color_identity: ["U"]
keywords: ["Flying", "Mill"]
set: "VOW"
set_name: "Innistrad: Crimson Vow"
collector_number: "75"
rarity: "uncommon"
artist: "Irina Nordsol"
oracle_id: "5ea5d171-a7b8-4269-9405-d2f4ccf0cbcb"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/screaming-swarm-vow"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Screaming Swarm
- **Mana Cost:** `{5}{U}` (CMC: 6)
- **Type:** Creature — Bird Horror
- **Power/Toughness:** 4/4
- **Keywords:** Flying, Mill

## Oracle Text
Flying
Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, target player mills that many cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
{2}{U}: Put this card from your graveyard into your library second from the top.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Screaming Phantom](/printing/screaming-phantom-lci.md) — Creature — Spirit
2. [Mindshrieker](/printing/mindshrieker-isd.md) — Creature — Spirit Bird
3. [Shriekgeist](/printing/shriekgeist-ima.md) — Creature — Spirit
4. [Fleet Swallower](/printing/fleet-swallower-xln.md) — Creature — Fish
5. [Crow of Dark Tidings](/printing/crow-of-dark-tidings-soi.md) — Creature — Zombie Bird
6. [Mindwrack Harpy](/printing/mindwrack-harpy-plst.md) — Enchantment Creature — Harpy

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Innistrad: Crimson Vow (VOW) #75
- **Rarity:** Uncommon
- **Artist:** Irina Nordsol
- **Total Printings:** 18 across all historical editions

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