Spineseeker Centipede
Creature — Insect
When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Delirium — This creature gets +1/+2 and has vigilance as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #13425
Spineseeker Centipede enters the battlefield and immediately strips an opponent's best permanent — no attack step required, no hoops to jump through. The cost is a six-mana sorcery-speed body that dies to a stiff breeze, which means Grist, the Hunger Tide shells running it for the mill-and-reanimate loop are doing the real work here.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Grist, the Hunger Tide
Grist, the Hunger Tide mills Spineseeker Centipede into the graveyard and then recurs it repeatedly via insect-tribal and reanimation lines, turning each loop into a repeatable Vindicate that keeps the table honest.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Spineseeker Centipede is a niche role-player — the six-mana entry point is steep for a one-time effect, but insect-tribal and graveyard loops let it punch above that rate by reusing the trigger. In 60-card formats, the competition from cheaper, unconditional removal is brutal and Spineseeker Centipede has no real foothold in Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy. Pauper is its most plausible non-Commander home, where unconditional exile-removal at any cost is rarer, though six mana is still a hard sell in a format defined by efficiency.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Spineseeker Centipede is deep bulk — pick up a playset for less than a pack. Bulk rares with narrow appeal rarely climb unless a breakout commander drives demand, so treat this as a cheap role-player rather than a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.