Vilespawn Spider
Creature — Spider
Reach
At the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
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, Sacrifice this creature: Create a 1/1 green Insect creature token for each creature card in your graveyard. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #15430
Vilespawn Spider generates a 1/1 Insect token every upkeep for each creature card in any graveyard — in a self-mill deck, that engine can produce four or five bodies a turn by midgame. The catch is that it costs three mana for a 2/3 reach, so it earns its slot only if you're already filling graveyards; in any other shell it's just a bad blocker.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
Sidisi, Brood Tyrant mills itself every time it attacks, and Vilespawn Spider converts that growing graveyard count into a second wave of token production alongside Sidisi's own Zombie triggers — running both means your graveyard is doing double duty.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vilespawn Spider is a Commander card through and through — the token payoff compounds over many turns in a multiplayer game where graveyards fill up fast and reach actually buys time against fliers. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's outclassed by creatures that win games faster and don't require a loaded graveyard to justify their mana cost. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where a self-mill signature spell could theoretically make Vilespawn Spider work, but the 60-card singleton construction still demands more from a three-drop. Stick to 100-card Commander lists built around graveyard synergy.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Vilespawn Spider sits firmly in bulk territory, and there's no pressure to buy in a hurry. Bulk graveyard payoffs rarely spike unless a new commander pushes the archetype into the spotlight, so the price is stable — grab a copy whenever you're already placing an order.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.