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Spore Crawler

Creature — Fungus2 generic manaGreen mana

Green rarely gets to draw cards on death; that job usually belongs to black, where sacrifice fodder and blood-for-cards has been a color pillar since the earliest sets. What this Fungus does is hand green a small piece of that recursion-into-card-flow, priced so the body is worth attacking or blocking with in its own right: a 3/2 that trades up or down and replaces itself either way. The design tension it resolves is green's chronic reluctance to accept the death of its creatures. A green three-drop that dies is normally a dead card and a lost tempo swing; here the death is the payoff, which quietly makes the creature better to throw into unfavorable combat or feed to a sacrifice effect than to protect. It rewards the exact play green usually punishes. Nothing on the card is flashy, and nothing needs to be: the value comes from removing the downside of losing the creature, so it slots naturally into any deck that wants bodies it can afford to lose. The upshot is a card that grinds rather than swings, valuable precisely because it never asks you to keep it alive.

Spore Crawler (dbl)
DBL · #489common
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature dies, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

3 sets
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