Endrider Spikespitter
Creature — Human Mercenary
Reach
Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
Max speed — At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #18521
Endrider Spikespitter puts a repeatable ping on the board the turn it lands — tap to deal 1 damage, and in the right shell that triggers every time Samut, the Driving Force untaps your creatures. The cost is a low-impact floor: outside untap-matters decks, it's a 1/1 that barely threatens.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Samut, the Driving Force
Samut, the Driving Force turns every untap trigger into an event, and Endrider Spikespitter converts those untaps into repeated pings — giving Samut a pinger that fires every cycle rather than once per turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Endrider Spikespitter is legal in every major constructed format but doesn't register competitively in any of them — Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy all demand far more from a one-drop, and a 1/1 pinger without evasion or a built-in value loop doesn't make the cut. Standard is where it has the most plausible home if a tap-and-untap theme exists in the current card pool, but even there it's fringe. Commander is the real format for this card, specifically in untap-heavy or tap-trigger decks where the repeated damage adds up over a long game.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Endrider Spikespitter is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. It holds no financial value and isn't likely to spike without a future combo piece that makes repeatable pinging suddenly broken.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.