Woodlot Crawler
Creature — Insect
Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
Protection from green
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dragon's Maze
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #27888
Woodlot Crawler is a two-mana 1/1 that can become protection from every color — a genuinely difficult blocker and attacker to interact with once it's fully pumped. The ceiling is real, but the three activations required to get there make it too slow for most competitive tables.
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 |
In Commander, Woodlot Crawler occupies an awkward slot: it demands mana investment across multiple turns to deliver its payoff, which is hard to justify when the format moves fast and board wipes reset everything. Constructed formats like Modern and Legacy have no interest in it — one-mana interaction answers it before it ever gets going, and there are simply better two-drops at every point on the curve. Pioneer is similarly hostile. Woodlot Crawler is, in practice, a casual Commander card: it rewards slow, grindy pods where a creature with protection from all colors becomes a genuine political and combat tool.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Woodlot Crawler is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not budgeting for it. Demand is too narrow for the price to move in either direction, so don't expect it to appreciate or crater.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.