Cavern Crawler
Creature — Insect
Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #30349
Cavern Crawler trades evasion for raw board presence — it enters as a 1/1 that grows whenever another creature enters your battlefield, making it quietly threatening in token and swarm strategies. The cost is that it does nothing alone; it's fully dependent on volume.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Cavern Crawler is a Pauper card at heart — in that format, the density of cheap creatures makes its counter accumulation realistic, and it slots into red aggro or sacrifice loops that want a low-cost threat that scales. In Commander, it needs a critical mass of creature-heavy builds — Krenko, Mob Boss or Prossh, Skyraider of Kher can trigger it repeatedly in a single turn, but 100-card singleton dilutes its consistency compared to 60-card formats. Legacy and Vintage can run it but never will; the competition at one mana is simply too stiff. Oathbreaker offers a middle ground, where faster games and tighter synergy windows make Cavern Crawler a marginal consideration in the right shell.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Cavern Crawler is deep bulk — you're paying for a card slot, not a card. Price stability is essentially guaranteed since there's no competitive demand to spike it, but that also means no upside; this is a throw-in, not a pickup.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.