Graverobber Spider
Creature — Spider
Reach
: This creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. Activate only once each turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Born of the Gods
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #16960
Graverobber Spider scales off the number of creature cards in all graveyards, turning a crowded late-game board into a legitimately threatening body for just two mana. It earns its slot specifically under Shelob, Child of Ungoliant, where the Spider tribal tag and graveyard-fueled growth align with what that deck is already doing — everywhere else, it's too conditional to justify the inclusion.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant cares about Spiders specifically, and Graverobber Spider delivers a scalable threat that gets bigger the longer a game runs — exactly the late-game pressure a Shelob deck wants from its creature slots.
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 |
Graverobber Spider is a Commander card through and through — its power scales with graveyard density across multiple players, which means a four-player game with a reanimator deck at the table can turn it into a 10/10 by turn six. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it competes against threats that win on their own rather than asking the graveyard to do the work, and two mana for a conditional creature rarely clears that bar. Oathbreaker shares the multiplayer dynamic that makes it functional, though the smaller game sizes dampen the ceiling. Stick to Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Graverobber Spider is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and nothing more. That price is stable purely because demand is narrow; it sees play almost exclusively in Shelob, Child of Ungoliant lists, so there's no pressure pushing it higher.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.