Jungle Creeper
Creature — Elemental
: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Rivals of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #28722
Jungle Creeper is a recursive three-color creature that keeps coming back from the graveyard as long as you can pay the cost — resilient on paper, but three mana to return a 3/3 with no enters-the-battlefield effect is a bad rate. You run it only when redundancy on graveyard recursion matters more than raw power.
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 |
Jungle Creeper is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, the format where graveyard recursion is most valued, it competes with engines that do far more for the same or less mana — the floor for a recursive creature in 100-card singleton is high, and Jungle Creeper doesn't clear it. In Legacy and Vintage, three colors and three mana for a 3/3 with no immediate impact is unplayable. Modern and Pioneer have enough cheap recursive threats that Jungle Creeper never enters the conversation.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Jungle Creeper is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. There's no demand pressure to push the price up, so it stays at the floor indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.