Arachnoform

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has reach, and is every creature type.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Kaldheim
Price
$0.07
EDHREC rank
#15587
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Arachnoform card art
Arachnoform turns every creature you control into a Spider with reach and the ability to crew vehicles — a blanket type-granting enchantment for one green mana that scales with board width. Treebeard, Gracious Host wants the Spider subtype on everything to maximize his life-gain triggers, and Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist weaponizes the token-gifting clause by ensuring the Salamander tokens opponents receive never have reach to threaten back through your web.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist

Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist

15.8% of decks · synergy 0.16

Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist forces opponents to keep Salamander tokens they can't easily sacrifice, and Arachnoform ensures your own creatures all share the Spider type — which matters if you're leaning on tribal payoffs or simply want reach to nullify the flying threats those Salamander decks never planned for.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

In Commander, Arachnoform is a niche tribal enabler that earns its slot almost exclusively in Spider-synergy decks or alongside commanders like Treebeard, Gracious Host who care about the type being present. At one mana it's nearly free to slot in, but it does nothing in isolation — you need a payoff already on the battlefield or in the command zone to justify the inclusion. Pauper is where the card has the most theoretical reach outside Commander, since cheap enchantments that grant evasion-adjacent keywords to every creature can matter in go-wide green shells, though Spider tribal isn't a competitive archetype there. In Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage, Arachnoform is too narrow and too low-impact to see play — formats that reward individual card power have no use for a blanket type-setter with no attached stat boost.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

3 decks
Treebeard, Gracious HostSpike FeederArachnoform

Treebeard, Gracious HostSpike FeederArachnoform

Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers

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Price Context

Current price

$0.07 bulk tier

At $0.07, Arachnoform is deep bulk — you'll pick copies out of a dollar box before you'll spend time tracking one down online. Bulk rares with narrow tribal applications don't appreciate, so treat this as a free include if you already own it, not a card worth hunting.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.