Broodspinner

Strategy & Gameplay

Broodspinner is a versatile two-mana creature that brings excellent utility to any black-green strategy looking for both defensive capability and resource generation. This 2/3 flyer with reach provides immediate board presence while its enter-the-battlefield surveil 2 ability helps sculpt your hand and graveyard, making it especially valuable in decks that benefit from filling your graveyard with specific card types. The surveil mechanic offers flexibility, allowing you to either dig for answers or set up your graveyard for future payoffs, making it a smooth play on turn two that rarely feels like a dead draw. The true power of Broodspinner emerges in its sacrifice ability, which turns your accumulated card types into a swarm of flying tokens. For just four additional mana plus a tap activation, you can convert your graveyard diversity into multiple evasive creatures, providing both a way to break board stalls and generate token synergies with cards that reward creature counts. This makes Broodspinner particularly attractive in grindy midrange shells, sacrifice-focused decks, and especially in formats like Commander where graveyard interaction is abundant and token generation creates meaningful advantage. The card fits naturally into Golgari (black-green) archetypes spanning Standard through Legacy, where it serves as both a grinding resource engine and a finisher in longer games. Broodspinner appeals to players who enjoy interactive gameplay, incremental advantage generation, and the satisfaction of converting disparate card types into board presence, making it a flexible pick for anyone piloting creature-based strategies.