Silt Crawler
Creature — Beast
When this creature enters, tap all lands you control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #29515
Silt Crawler is a 3/3 for three mana with a real drawback — it can't block — so you're getting a slightly above-rate beater that contributes nothing on defense. Unless your deck specifically rewards aggressive green creatures or needs bodies for sacrifice or counter synergies, there are better three-drops.
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 |
Silt Crawler is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, a 3/3 that can't block is too small to threaten anyone at a four-player table and too passive to justify the slot. Pauper is its most plausible home — aggressive green commons can occasionally use a 3/3 for three — but even there, the no-block clause is a liability that better commons don't carry. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a vanilla-adjacent creature at this rate.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Silt Crawler is deep bulk — you're not buying this for value, you're rummaging for it in a common box. Nothing about its playability suggests that price moves in either direction.
Explore
Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.