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Spinal Centipede
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Guilds of RavnicaGRN · #86
- Card type
- Creature — Insect
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.02 € · ★ 0.20 € · 0.18 $ · ★ 0.34 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Black
Card text
When this creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Zezhou Chen
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2018-10-05
Flavour text
The Golgari adorn themselves with the exoskeletons of iridescent insects. It's only fair the insects do likewise.
Rulings
If another creature you control is dealt lethal damage at the same time as Spinal Centipede, they’re destroyed at the same time. That creature can’t receive a counter from Spinal Centipede’s ability in time to save it.