Mindbender Spores
Creature — Fungus Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, put four fungus counters on that creature. The creature gains "This creature doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a fungus counter on it" and "At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fungus counter from this creature."
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $1.25
- EDHREC rank
- #21114
Mindbender Spores locks a creature out of attacking or blocking for four full turns — the cumulative upkeep means the tax compounds, but the effect is uniquely persistent for a single enchantment. It's a niche pillow-fort piece that rewards patient, stax-adjacent strategies and does almost nothing in faster metas.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only realistic home for Mindbender Spores, where games run long enough for four-turn lockdowns to matter and where neutralizing a single threatening creature can buy critical breathing room. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but functionally irrelevant — those formats end before the cumulative upkeep clock even starts ticking. Mindbender Spores fits tightest in stax or pillow-fort shells that want to stall the board rather than answer threats cleanly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.25 cheap tier
At $1.25, Mindbender Spores sits in the budget tier — low enough that picking one up for a dedicated stax build costs nothing meaningful. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile Commander deck brings cumulative upkeep synergies into the spotlight.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.