Drider
Creature — Elf Spider
Reach
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a 2/1 black Spider creature token with menace and reach.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #8719
Drider puts a 3/4 reach body on the board that generates Food tokens whenever it or another creature deals combat damage to a player while deathtouch is in play — a consistent engine when paired with the right commander. Five mana is a real cost, but Shelob, Child of Ungoliant turns every one of those Food triggers into card advantage, which makes Drider punch well above its price tag.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant grants deathtouch to all your Spiders, which means Drider's Food-on-damage trigger fires every time any of your creatures connects — Shelob then converts each of those Food tokens into a card draw, turning Drider into a repeatable draw engine stapled to a relevant body.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Drider is a Commander card through and through — the Food-generation payoff compounds over a long game in ways that one-on-one formats simply don't reward. In Modern and Legacy it's a five-mana 3/4 that requires additional setup to do anything meaningful, which is not a rate those formats will tolerate. Pioneer is similarly uninterested; efficient threats and interaction make a slow tribal Spider a liability. Drider is legal in Oathbreaker, where it can slot into a deathtouch-matters build, but the 60-card constraint and faster clock limit how reliably the engine assembles.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Drider is deep bulk — straightforward to acquire as a four-of or to toss into a Shelob pile without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow tribal homes rarely climb, so treat this as a pickup-and-play card rather than a hold.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.