Squirming Mass
Creature — Horror
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Urza's Destiny
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #27282
Squirming Mass is a one-mana 1/1 with menace — baseline unplayable in Commander, where a 1/1 that requires two blockers still trades into nothing relevant. The ceiling is too low to justify a slot unless you're running a dedicated low-to-the-ground aggro shell that specifically rewards one-drop creatures.
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 |
Squirming Mass is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the formats where it's worth discussing are narrow. In Pauper, one-mana menace creatures have a theoretical home in black aggro, though Squirming Mass competes with strictly more impactful one-drops and rarely makes cuts. In Commander, a vanilla 1/1 with menace offers nothing at a table where opponents start at 40 life and token armies dwarf it by turn four. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the card doesn't interact with anything those formats care about.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Squirming Mass sits firmly in bulk territory. There's no meaningful demand driver that would move this price, so it holds value only in the sense that bulk stays bulk.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.