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Meldweb Strider

Artifact — Vehicle

Vigilance
This Vehicle enters with an oil counter on it.
Remove an oil counter from this Vehicle: It becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.
Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Phyrexia: All Will Be One
Price
$0.04
EDHREC rank
#24137
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Meldweb Strider card art
Meldweb Strider locks down a creature every turn it attacks — repeatable pseudo-tap effects at that price point are genuinely hard to come by. The catch is a five-mana 3/5 body that needs to connect, which means it lives or dies by evasion support, making it a natural fit under Shelob, Child of Ungoliant where deathtouch does the work.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Meldweb Strider is a Commander card through and through — the effect compounds over multiple turns and rewards the kind of evasion-dense, combat-focused builds that thrive in longer games. In faster formats like Modern or Pioneer it's simply too slow: five mana for a conditional tap effect won't survive long enough to matter. Pauper and Legacy are legal on paper but offer nothing this card wants, and the card asks too much setup to function as anything other than a value engine in long, multiplayer games.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.04 bulk tier

At $0.04, Meldweb Strider is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. That price is stable; there's no sleeper-hit demand lurking here, so pick up copies freely and don't expect movement in either direction.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.