Spur Grappler
Creature — Beast
This creature gets +2/+1 as long as you control no untapped lands.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #30928
Spur Grappler enters as a 3/2 haste for two mana, which is a fine rate, but the payoff is gating its full power behind having another creature with haste — a condition that's trivially met in the right shell and irrelevant everywhere else. Run it where haste matters or don't run it.
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 |
In Commander, Spur Grappler earns a slot in aggressive red decks that flood the board with haste creatures — think Goblin tribal or Isshin, Two Heavens as One — where the pump condition is almost always live. In Pauper, it competes in a tight commons environment where two-drop creatures are scrutinized hard, and a conditional 3/2 that needs a friend to get to 4/3 rarely clears the bar. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — Spur Grappler isn't touching those formats in any meaningful way.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Spur Grappler is deep bulk — it costs less than a sleeve. That price won't move; this is a card you pick up as a throw-in or out of a bulk bin, not one you track.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.