Giant Spider
Creature — Spider
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Seventh Edition
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #18914
Giant Spider trades up against flyers all day — a 2/4 reach body for four mana that answers most aerial threats without requiring any setup. It's a Limited staple and a Commander bulk inclusion at best; the floor is high, the ceiling is not.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Giant Spider is a Pauper-legal common that earns its keep in Limited and nowhere else at a competitive level. In Commander, a 2/4 reach for four mana is simply outclassed by creatures that do more — block flyers and generate value, or block flyers and win the game; Giant Spider just blocks. In Pauper it occasionally shows up in green defensive shells where reach matters and options are scarce. Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage don't want it — the bar for a four-mana 2/4 with no additional text is too high in any format with a deep card pool.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Giant Spider is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a common box and rarely moves. That price is stable by default, not by demand; there's no spike scenario here.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.