Clinging Anemones
Creature — Jellyfish
Defender
Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #22705
Clinging Anemones is a 0/4 defender that gains deathtouch whenever you cast an instant — a reasonable blocker in a dedicated instant-heavy shell, nearly useless anywhere else. The payoff is real but narrow: if your deck isn't built around casting instants at a high rate, this is just a vanilla wall.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Clinging Anemones is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, it fits only in instant-tribal or spellslinger decks that want a defensive body — even there, a 0/4 with conditional deathtouch rarely makes the cut over creatures that advance a board state rather than just stall one. Pauper is the most plausible home given the common slot and the prevalence of tempo-based blue decks, but the defender restriction is a serious limitation. Across every format, Clinging Anemones is a niche roleplayer at best.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Clinging Anemones is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. There's no meaningful demand driver that would push this out of the bulk bin.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.