Hatchery Spider
Creature — Spider
Reach
Undergrowth — When you cast this spell, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. You may put a green permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #11008
Hatchery Spider enters with up to five +1/+1 counters and puts any number of green permanent cards with converted mana cost 3 or less it reveals directly onto the battlefield — that's a stat-padded body that doubles as a cascade-style deployment engine. The problem is eight mana for a creature with no evasion and a trigger that whiffs the moment your curve runs high; Shelob, Child of Ungoliant is the commander that actually justifies sleeving this up.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant turns every Spider into a threat, and Hatchery Spider's enters-the-battlefield trigger fits cleanly into a Spider tribal shell where the top of your library is already stacked with cheap green permanents to flood the board alongside a sizeable deathtouch 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 |
Hatchery Spider is a Commander card — eight mana for a conditional ETB trigger is simply unplayable in competitive Constructed, and it never sees Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer tables. In Commander, the ceiling is a tribal Spider build under Shelob, Child of Ungoliant, where Hatchery Spider's mass deployment can snowball a stalled board state. Outside of tribal, the cost is prohibitive: you need the game to go long, a low-to-the-ground green package to maximize the reveal, and a deck willing to spend its eighth-land turn on a creature without haste or trample. It's a narrow role player, not a staple.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Hatchery Spider sits firmly in bulk territory, which accurately reflects its narrow application. Bulk rares rarely recover value without a breakout format moment, and this one has no realistic path to Constructed relevance, so treat it as a cheap tribal pickup and nothing more.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.