Crawling Filth
Creature — Spirit
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Soulshift 5 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 5 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #26777
Crawling Filth puts a 3/3 black Horror token with menace onto the battlefield the turn it resolves — meaningful pressure for a single card. The cost is five mana and a sorcery-speed slot, which is a real ask in any format that cares about efficiency.
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 |
Crawling Filth is a bulk roleplayer at best, and the format determines exactly how much that matters. In Commander, a 3/3 menace token for five mana is table-stakes mediocre — you're competing with token generators that produce multiples or recur themselves. In Pauper, commons live and die by rate, and Crawling Filth doesn't clear the bar there either. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; no competitive shell wants this effect at this cost when the format is full of broken alternatives.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Crawling Filth is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a commons box without thinking twice. Don't expect that price to move; there's no competitive demand driving a spike.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.