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Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror
LegalCard DrawRank #449
Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.
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Why is this card good?
Psychosis Crawler is a premier payoff for draw-heavy decks, turning your card advantage into a colorless wincon. The damage triggers per card drawn, not per draw spell, so it shines when you chain big draws.
Where it wants to live:
- Blue "draw-go" / wheel decks — pair with Windfall, Wheel of Fortune, or Echo of Eons to ping the whole table for 7+ each.
- Nekusar, the Mindrazer — forced group draw plus Crawler punishes everyone fast.
- Niv-Mizzet or The Locust God — high-volume card draw engines that already chain triggers.
- Storm/spellslinger shells that draw repeatedly per turn.
Being colorless, it slots into virtually any deck running draw effects, and its body scales with a full hand — a fine blocker or sneaky beater too.
When to skip it: decks that don't draw extra cards leave it as a vanilla creature. It also makes you the table's biggest threat once it starts pinging, so it can draw removal and target you in politics-heavy pods.
Related cards
Sphinx's Tutelage
Another card-draw-triggered incremental damage/mill engine.
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
Pings opponents whenever you draw a card.
Underworld Dreams
Punishes card draw with life loss, similar payoff.
The Locust God
Card-draw payoff that scales with heavy draw decks.
Teferi's Ageless Insight
Doubles draws, multiplying Crawler's life-loss triggers.
Kindred Discovery
Mass card draw fuels Crawler's damage output.
Bloodchief Ascension
Life-loss payoff in wheel/draw shells alongside Crawler.
Fang of Shigeki
Big creature scaling with hand size like Crawler.
Printings (15)
Played by these commanders
Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis100% of 1
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos100% of 1
Mizzix of the Izmagnus100% of 1
Gavi, Nest Warden100% of 1
Ms. Bumbleflower100% of 1
Captain N'ghathrod100% of 1
Saheeli, the Gifted100% of 1
Morska, Undersea Sleuth100% of 1
Rulings (1)
- 2011-06-01
If an effect causes you to draw multiple cards, Psychosis Crawler will trigger that many times.