Crab

Crab is a creature type used for various, predominantly marine, crustaceans.

Description
Crabs are characterized by a broad flattened head and trunk covered by a hard carapace with a small abdomen concealed beneath it, short antennae, and five pairs of legs, of which the anterior pair is large and pincer-like. Mechanically they are high-toughness creatures at common for blue, with simple to no abilities.

The first creature to bear the type was Giant Crab in Tempest. A related race is the Homarids.

Notable Crabs

 * Zendikar
 * Charix

Trivia

 * Riptide Crab is the only crab which is also white.
 * Iceberg Cancrix is a Snow Crab.
 * Crabs are a popular subtype in the Simic Combine:
 * Simic Keyrune is a manstone that can become a 2/3 green and blue Crab artifact creature with hexproof. Two other Crab hybrids appear as Skitter Eel and Growth-Chamber Guardian.
 * Three other multicoloured Crabs hail from the Simic on Ravnica: Shambleshark, Sharktocrab and Scuttlegator</c>. These are the only Crabs to have green in their casting cost.
 * For other odd creature types, Chromeshell Crab</c> and Oraxid</c> are Crab Beasts. Wormfang Crab</c> is a Nightmare Crab. Vexing Scuttler</c> and Drownyard Behemoth</c> are Eldrazi-corrupted Crabs.