Silkweaver Elite
Creature — Elf Archer
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Revolt — When this creature enters, if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn, draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #23940
Silkweaver Elite puts a 1/1 reach Spider token on the board when it enters and replaces itself with a card draw if you have a Spider — two pieces of value stapled to a two-mana body. The catch is that both payoffs are conditional on your deck actually caring about Spiders, making it a auto-include in tribal builds and filler everywhere else.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Silkweaver Elite is a Pauper-legal common, and that's where it has the most realistic competitive ceiling — Spider tribal is a fringe but functional archetype there, and the enter-the-battlefield draw trigger rewards the density of Spiders the format's budget shells can support. In Commander, it slots cleanly into any Spider or Arachnos-adjacent build, pairing especially well with commanders that care about tokens or reach creatures; outside those tribes it's too low-impact for a 100-card format that demands more universal utility. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer are non-starters — a 2/2 for two with conditional upside doesn't clear the rate bar in any of those formats.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Silkweaver Elite is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. It's stable at that floor; Spider tribal isn't driving demand spikes, so expect it to stay in the bulk bin indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.