Frightcrawler
Creature — Horror
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2 and can't block.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #24637
Frightcrawler is a one-mana 1/1 with fear that gains +1/+1 for each other black creature you control — a board-dependent attacker that ranges from unblockable nuisance to legitimate threat in mono-black swarm strategies. The ceiling is real in the right shell, but the floor is a vanilla 1/1 that dies to a stiff breeze.
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 |
In Commander, Frightcrawler is a fringe roleplayer in mono-black creature-dense builds — fear is surprisingly effective in a format full of non-black, non-artifact creatures, but a 1/1 base body competes for space with much more impactful one-drops. In Pauper, Frightcrawler sees occasional play in black aggro shells where the fear clause forces awkward blocks, though better commons have largely pushed it out. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the power level gap is too wide for a card this incremental to matter.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Frightcrawler is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. There's no meaningful demand driver that would move this off the bulk floor.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.