Spiderwig Boggart
Creature — Goblin Shaman
When this creature enters, target creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #27653
Spiderwig Boggart gives a target creature -1/-1 and fear until end of turn — a minor debuff stapled to a 2/1 body for three mana with no enters-the-battlefield trigger. The rate is too weak to justify a slot in any competitive list.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Spiderwig Boggart is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play across all of those formats has passed it by. In Commander, a three-mana 2/1 that deals -1/-1 on a tap ability doesn't move the needle in a 40-life multiplayer game. Pauper is its most plausible home given the lower power ceiling, but even there the body is undersized and the tap effect too narrow to warrant inclusion. Goblin tribal is the one context where the subtype does any real work, and even dedicated Goblin lists have stronger options at the three-drop slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Spiderwig Boggart sits firmly in bulk territory — the price of a throwaway draft pick, not a constructed staple. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point rarely appreciate, and there's no meaningful demand driver here to suggest otherwise.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.