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Stinging Cave Crawler
Oracle Text
Deathtouch
Descend 4 — Whenever this creature attacks, if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Stinging Cave Crawler is a compact black attacker that fits best in a grindy value or sacrifice-mill shell, where its deathtouch makes blocking miserable and its Descend 4 trigger turns combat into card advantage. In The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, it feels like a predator adapted to ruinous underworld corridors: small, relentless, and dangerous enough that opponents can’t safely ignore it. On the battlefield, a 1/3 body with deathtouch buys time against larger creatures, so it supports control decks that want an early stabilizer while still pressuring life totals. The real payoff comes once your graveyard fills with permanent cards, letting attacks replace themselves with a card even through trades. Pair it with self-mill, fetch lands, cheap permanents, and sacrifice outlets to reach Descend quickly; cards that put lands and creatures into the graveyard are especially valuable. Because it costs only three mana, it also curves well into removal-heavy turns, forcing awkward blocks and steady incremental advantage.
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Character Background
Stinging Cave Crawler is a compact black attacker that fits best in a grindy value or sacrifice-mill shell, where its deathtouch makes blocking miserable and its Descend 4 trigger turns combat into card advantage. In The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, it feels like a predator adapted to ruinous underworld corridors: small, relentless, and dangerous enough that opponents can’t safely ignore it. On the battlefield, a 1/3 body with deathtouch buys time against larger creatures, so it supports control decks that want an early stabilizer while still pressuring life totals. The real payoff comes once your graveyard fills with permanent cards, letting attacks replace themselves with a card even through trades. Pair it with self-mill, fetch lands, cheap permanents, and sacrifice outlets to reach Descend quickly; cards that put lands and creatures into the graveyard are especially valuable. Because it costs only three mana, it also curves well into removal-heavy turns, forcing awkward blocks and steady incremental advantage.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-11 16:10:46 UTC