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Spider-Man Commander Showdown! | Venom vs Anti-Venom vs Ultimate Spiderman vs Electro |#mtg

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Commanders featured in this Gameplay Reviewed & Verified

Decklists

Deck & Commander Strategies

  • Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector

    Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector

    A jund reanimator deck focused on cheating large creatures into play and leveraging graveyard recursion to maintain board presence and pressure.

  • Electro, Assaulting Battery

    Electro, Assaulting Battery

    A red-focused combo deck aiming to generate enormous amounts of mana and then deal massive damage by having Electro die and trigger his damage ability.

  • Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-Man

    Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-Man

    A +1/+1 counters and proliferate deck that builds a board of spider creatures and legendary creatures, growing them through combat and synergy to overwhelm opponents.

  • Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer

    Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer

    A deck centered around the Pariah enchantment to boost Anti-Venom’s toughness and size, combined with animating creatures from the graveyard for a resilient and large board presence.

Gameplay Insights

  • 1

    Electro’s ability to retain red mana between phases allowed for explosive mana generation and potential burst damage setups.

  • 2

    The use of Ripples of Undeath by Venom’s player to mill key cards like Sneak Attack and Victimize set up powerful reanimation turns.

  • 3

    Ultimate Spider-Man’s use of proliferate and creatures entering with extra +1/+1 counters accelerated board growth significantly.

  • 4

    Anti-Venom’s plan to attach Pariah and grow big, combined with graveyard animation, provided a strong defensive and offensive strategy to withstand board wipes.

Notable Cards

  • Ripples of Undeath

    Ripples of Undeath

  • Sneak Attack

    Sneak Attack

  • Victimize

    Victimize

  • Beast Within

    Beast Within

  • Pariah

    Pariah

  • Tireless Tribe

    Tireless Tribe

Gameplay Summary

In this multiplayer Commander game featuring Spider-Man-themed commanders, the game started with players establishing their mana bases and early board presence.

Venom aimed to leverage reanimation and cheat large creatures into play, while Electro focused on generating large amounts of red mana and aiming for a big damage burst when Electro dies.

Ultimate Spider-Man centered around building +1/+1 counters on spider creature tokens and legendary creatures to grow a wide, threatening board.

Anti-Venom looked to maximize the power of the Pariah enchantment to grow itself and animate creatures from the graveyard, aiming for resilience and a large board presence. Early turns saw key plays like Electro entering with his mana-generating ability, while the Ultimate Spider-Man player started assembling a board with proliferate synergies and creatures with counters.

Venom's player utilized Ripples of Undeath to mill cards and set up graveyard recursion options, finding powerful cards like Sneak Attack and Victimize.

The Anti-Venom deck planned to attach Pariah and grow to overwhelming size while potentially animating creatures from the graveyard.

The game was shaping up with each player building their board and preparing their unique win conditions, with tension around the potential explosive damage from Electro and the growing threat of Venom’s and Ultimate Spider-Man’s board states.

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