Broodspinner
Creature — Spider
Reach
When this creature enters, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
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, Sacrifice this creature: Create a number of 1/1 black and green Insect creature tokens with flying equal to the number of card types among cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #10619
Broodspinner enters as a 2/3 Spider with reach and immediately makes a Food token, then makes another every time a creature dies — that's a repeatable, on-theme engine stapled to a body. The six-mana ask is steep, but in Shelob, Child of Ungoliant decks that convert Food into card advantage, the cost justifies itself fast.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant turns every Food token into a scry-and-draw trigger when creatures die, so Broodspinner's death-trigger engine feeds that loop directly — each creature that hits the graveyard nets you a Food, and each Food cashed in nets you cards.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Broodspinner is a Commander card, full stop — the six-mana cost disqualifies it from any competitive 60-card format where that slot needs to win the game, not grind incremental value. In Commander, it earns its slot specifically in Spider tribal and Shelob, Child of Ungoliant builds, where the Food generation scales with the volume of creature deaths a multiplayer game produces. Outside those focused strategies, a 2/3 reach body that makes Food on entry and on creature death is too slow and too low-impact against the average power level of Commander tables. Don't slot Broodspinner into a generic black-green deck expecting it to carry weight — it needs a commander that cares about Food, tokens, or both.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Broodspinner is bulk, and that price reflects its narrow demand — it's a role-player in one specific archetype, not a staple with broad appeal. Expect it to stay in this range; there's no pressure driving it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.