Sludge Crawler
Battle for Zendikar 98 • common
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar
- Collector number
- 98
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Johann Bodin
- Market price
- $0.19
What it does
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library.)
2 generic mana: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Sludge Crawler was released in 2015 as part of the Battle for Zendikar expansion for Magic: The Gathering. This set marked a return to the plane of Zendikar, focusing on a desperate conflict between the local inhabitants and the reality-warping Eldrazi titans. As a common-rarity creature card, it was designed as a fundamental building block for the set's Limited environments, emphasizing the 'devoid' mechanic which allowed colorless creatures to interact with specific tribal synergies.
The card was illustrated by Igor Kieryluk, who depicted the creature as a parasitic, amorphous entity reflective of the set's theme of environmental corruption. Kieryluk’s design aimed to convey the unsettling nature of the Eldrazi influence on the natural world, utilizing fluid lines and muted, sickly tones to establish the crawler as a lowly but dangerous component of the broader Eldrazi swarm. The card is noted primarily by players for its efficiency as a scalable threat during the early phases of a game.
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