Spike Colony
Creature — Spike
This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Battle Royale Box Set
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #27265
Spike Colony enters as a 0/0, immediately eats two +1/+1 counters from itself, and can redistribute those counters to other creatures at any time — making it both a counter battery and a sizable body. The enter-and-drain engine is the whole appeal; this is a role-player in counter-focused decks, not a standalone threat.
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 |
Spike Colony is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it only earns a slot in counter-matters builds where moving +1/+1 counters around has compounding value. In Commander, that means Atraxa, Praetors' Voice or Ozolith-style synergy decks that want a repeatable counter-transfer engine stapled to a creature. Pauper is where Spike Colony sees its most concentrated niche use, since commons-only counter synergies are constrained and a self-sufficient counter-mover fills a genuine gap. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the rate is far too slow for those formats.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Spike Colony is firmly bulk — a pickup cost that rounds down to free in most trade binders. Bulk status is stable; this won't spike unless a counter-synergy commander breaks out and drags demand upward, which has happened to narrower Spike-tribe cards before but isn't a reason to hoard copies.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.