Silkweaver Elite: Standard Web-Warrior Corps

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Introduction

In the Marvel multiverse, every universe has its own Spider-Man. The Spider-Men in Marvel’s Spider-Man aren’t just the original from Earth-616, Peter Parker, but a whole variety of Spider-Men appear, and the set even offers the five-color superhero and spider lord Cosmic Spider-Man. Since this set has so many Spider-Men and even hands you a five-color finisher, it would be hard to justify not playing five-color Spider-Man. Let’s try building it.

Card Analysis

Radioactive Spider / Fateweaver
Creature - Spider
Reach, deathtouch
Fate’s Bite - {2}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a Spider or Hero card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

*Fateweaver is the card’s name in the MTGA version.

The five-color Spider-Man deck’s signature creature is Cosmic Spider-Man, whose role in the deck is the final finishing weapon: during combat it shares five keyword abilities with all your Spider creatures, but that’s just a pile of keywords and doesn’t count as the deck’s key core, so there isn’t much to say about it overall. So this article’s core card is the tutor creature Radioactive Spider. A one-mana 1/1 with deathtouch and reach is a very deterrent combination: just standing on the battlefield makes the opponent’s creatures afraid to attack casually, and when you attack, the opponent is unwilling to block with anything other than tokens, so it’s well suited both for early defense and, after attacking, for Web-slinging. Sacrificing it can find a Spider Hero creature in your library and put it into your hand, making it effectively a Spider-Man-exclusive tutor. The resulting decklist is as follows:

Decklist

The Spider-Men chosen for this deck, besides the final weapon Cosmic Spider-Man, are Spider-Punk, Spectacular Spider-Man, Silk, Web Weaver, Spinneret and Spiderling, Spider-Ham, Peter Porker, and Spider-Byte, Web Warden. The deck is built on the principle of multiple copies of the main threats and single copies of the utility pieces. Cosmic Spider-Man and Spider-Punk are the main creatures: the former is the finishing war god that sends the whole Spider team into orbit, while the latter is a two-drop that gives the whole team riot and offers protection against counterspells and damage prevention. Note that Spider-Punk’s protection applies to the whole table: the opponent can’t counter your spells or abilities, and you can’t counter theirs, and all creatures’ ward becomes ineffective because of it. The other Spider-Men are utility choices: Spectacular Spider-Man protects against sweepers, Silk, Web Weaver fills the board and doubles as a backup win condition, Spinneret and Spiderling is a growing one-drop, the lord Spider-Ham, Peter Porker is effectively a fourth Spider-Punk, and Spider-Byte, Web Warden is soft removal that bounces a nonland permanent on entering.

Cosmic Spider-Man / Spider-Punk MTGA corresponding card art

Spectacular Spider-Man / Silk, Web Weaver MTGA corresponding card art

Spinneret and Spiderling / Peter Porker / Spider-Byte MTGA corresponding card art

With the Spider Heroes covered, next up are the support creatures. First is the card-draw engine: the official option in this set is the Spider-Man series’ leading lady Mary Jane Watson, who draws a card whenever one of your Spider creatures enters (once per turn). Her support isn’t limited to Spider Heroes, so the other support creatures are also picked from Spiders. Next come Twitching Doll and Spinner of Souls from the home set. Twitching Doll is the any-color mana creature that five-color decks need. Each time it makes mana, it gets a nest counter, and you can sacrifice it to create 2/2 reach Spider tokens equal to the number of counters on it (not limited to nest counters). It has lots of interactions in this deck, and pairing it with Cosmic Spider-Man or Spider-Punk to rush in and take the opponent out is not impossible. Spinner of Souls converts your other nontoken creatures that die into a new creature card, which is not only protection against sweepers but, paired with creatures that sacrifice themselves like Radioactive Spider and Twitching Doll, can net more resources.

Mary Jane MTGA version art & Twitching Doll / Spinner of Souls alternate art

Finally, the noncreature spells. For removal we use Seam Rip, Get Lost, Abrade, and Vivien Reid, which also works as a card-draw engine, to handle all kinds of permanent threats. To protect the key draw and finisher creatures, the main deck also has three Restoration Magic as protection against removal (counterspell-type spells would be negated by your own Spider-Punk).

Gameplay Demo

Although it’s a Spider-Man deck, the pure Spider creatures are the backbone of this deck. Radioactive Spider, Twitching Doll, Spinner of Souls, and Mary Jane complement each other, deterring the opponent’s attacks while also providing strong resource generation, giving your Spider Heroes the best backup.

Conclusion

The benefit of a five-color deck is that you can play any card, with the highest deckbuilding freedom, and with a tutor to find the Spider-Man you need, you can put in whichever Spider-Man you want. This article offers an example of a green-based Spider engine. Readers can pick their favorite Spider-Men on their own and build their own personal Spider-Man tribal deck.