Blind Creeper
Creature — Zombie Beast
Whenever a player casts a spell, this creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Salvat 2005
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #30279
Blind Creeper is a 3/3 for two mana — a rate that would be pushed if it came without strings, and those strings are real: your opponent draws a card whenever Blind Creeper attacks or blocks. Outside of strategies that deliberately want opponents drawing cards, that cost is too steep to justify the body.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Blind Creeper is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Pauper, where efficient commons matter most, a 3/3 for two is eye-catching until you read the trigger — giving your opponent card advantage at combat is a liability no aggro deck wants. In Legacy and Vintage, the bar for two-mana creatures is set by cards that win the game outright, so Blind Creeper doesn't register. Commander is the one context where the downside could theoretically be flipped into an upside — group hug or Nekusar, the Mindrazer-style punishment builds can weaponize forced draws — but even there, better enablers exist at the same cost.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Blind Creeper isn't available in the current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its narrow competitive application, it almost certainly sits at bulk pricing — pick it up for pennies if a specific group hug or draw-punishment build calls for it, but don't expect scarcity to be a factor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.