Mineshaft Spider
Creature — Spider
Reach
When this creature enters, you may mill two cards. (You may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #18493
Mineshaft Spider enters as a reach blocker that scales with the number of lands in graveyards — all players' graveyards — making it legitimately large in any game where fetchlands and self-mill have been firing. Six mana is a real ask for a creature with no enters-the-battlefield effect, and in most metas that cost keeps it firmly in casual territory.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mineshaft Spider is a Commander card through and through — the graveyard accumulation across four players is what makes the size payoff plausible, and the format's slower clock gives you time to cast a six-drop that does nothing the turn it arrives. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern or Legacy, six mana for a vanilla-ish reach creature is unplayable; those formats close out games before the graveyard count climbs high enough to matter. Pauper is the one non-Commander format worth a glance, since the format's low power ceiling means a large reach body carries more relative weight, but even there the cost-to-impact ratio is strained. Standard and Pioneer have enough removal that a do-nothing ETB at six mana rarely survives long enough to block.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Mineshaft Spider is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. There's no pressure on that price to move in either direction; it's the kind of card that sits in bulk boxes indefinitely unless a graveyard-lands archetype in Commander suddenly needs a reach finisher.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.