Rampart Crawler
Creature — Lizard Mercenary
This creature can't be blocked by Walls.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #27326
Rampart Crawler is a one-mana 1/1 that can block any creature with power 4 or greater — a wall-style effect stapled to a body that costs almost nothing to slot in. It's a reasonable speed bump in creature-heavy metas, but too narrow and too small to earn a spot in most tuned lists.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Rampart Crawler occupies the bottom of the defensive curve — it'll trade with or stall a commander-damage attacker in the early game, but 40 life and three opponents mean one blocker rarely matters past turn four. Pauper is its best home: the format's threats are smaller, games are more board-focused, and a one-mana creature that can chump a Gurmag Angler has genuine utility. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — Rampart Crawler doesn't interact with those formats' actual threat landscape at all. It's a pauper roleplayer and not much else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Rampart Crawler is deep bulk — the kind of card that moves in bulk lots and rarely as a single. There's no pressure driving the price up, and no reason to expect it to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.