Deadly Insect
Creature — Insect
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Coldsnap Theme Decks
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #25136
Deadly Insect hits the board as a 6/1 with shroud for five mana — a stat line that demands a block but dies to any pinger or trampler that looks at it sideways. It's a bulk rare in practice: shroud protects it from targeted removal but does nothing about combat math, making it a liability more often than a threat.
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 |
Deadly Insect is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but that legal status is mostly academic. In Commander, a 6/1 shroud creature for five mana competes against green options that generate value on entry or close games outright — Deadly Insect does neither. Pauper is where it has the best theoretical case, since shroud is harder to work around at common power levels, but a single-toughness body is trivially traded or pinged off the board. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a five-mana vanilla threat regardless of shroud.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Deadly Insect is firmly bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price tier rarely move unless a combo or synergy breaks them out, and nothing on the horizon suggests that fate for this one.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.