Arachnoid
Artifact Creature — Spider
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Fifth Dawn
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #23382
Arachnoid is a 4/4 with reach for five mana — passable stats, but nothing that justifies a slot over cheaper or more versatile green creatures. It doesn't generate value, doesn't synergize with major Commander archetypes, and reach alone doesn't cut it at this cost.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Arachnoid is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but being legal and being playable are different things. In Commander, a 4/4 reach body for five mana with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no keyword upside beyond reach, and no tribal tag gets outclassed by nearly every green five-drop in the format. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is unplayable on power-level grounds — formats that run Force of Will and Mox Sapphire have no patience for a vanilla beater. Arachnoid is the kind of card that exists in cubes built specifically around early-era limited design, not in any competitive or optimized shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Arachnoid sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price is a ceiling, not a floor. There is no demand driver that would push it higher — no combo role, no tribal synergy, no reprint scarcity — so treat it as throw-in material and nothing more.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.