Crystalline Crawler
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SetC16
Collector #54
Released2016-11-11
Rarityrare
ArtistJason Felix
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Crystalline Crawler

RareMV 4
Artifact Creature — Construct
Converge — This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Add one mana of any color.
: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
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Keywords
Converge
Card capabilities
ArtifactCreatureMana productionRamp
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
5 other English printingsEarliest 2016-11-16Newest 2025-08-01Cheapest priced $0.33 in PLST
Rulings (4)
wotc8 Nov 2016
If there are any alternative or additional costs to cast a spell with a converge ability, the mana spent to pay those costs will count. For example, if an effect makes Crystalline Crawler cost {1} more to cast, you could pay {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} to cast it and have it enter the battlefield with five +1/+1 counters.
wotc8 Nov 2016
Unless a spell or ability allows you to, you can't choose to pay more mana for a spell with a converge ability just to spend more colors of mana. Likewise, if a spell or ability reduces the amount of mana it costs you to cast a spell with converge, you can't ignore that cost reduction in order to spend more colors of mana.
wotc8 Nov 2016
If you cast a spell with converge without spending any mana to cast it (perhaps because an effect allowed you to cast it without paying its mana cost), then the number of colors spent to cast it will be zero.
wotc8 Nov 2016
The colors of mana are white, blue, black, red, and green. Colorless is not a color.