Deck & Commander Strategies
Peter Parker // Amazing Spider-Man
Focuses on historic legendary creatures and spells to create spider tokens and ultimately transform into Amazing Spider-Man, gaining the ability to generate additional value and defend the board.
Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector
Utilizes sacrifice and reanimation synergies, aiming to deploy large creatures like Grave Titan and leverage graveyard recursion to maintain board presence and pressure opponents.
Green Goblin, Revenant
Executes a looting and card draw strategy to cycle through the deck rapidly, gaining incremental advantage while disrupting opponents and setting up key plays.
Scarlet Spider, Ben Reilly
Employs a Gruul landfall-style strategy focused on playing big creatures and enhancing them with +1/+1 counters through web-slinging, combined with anthem effects and haste to create explosive attacking opportunities.
Gameplay Insights
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Scarlet Spider’s ability to enter with +1/+1 counters equal to converted mana cost combined with haste and anthem effects allowed for a significant early damage output.
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Venom’s use of discard outlets synergized well with sacrifice and reanimation strategies, enabling efficient resource conversion and board presence.
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Green Goblin’s looting and surveilling helped maintain card flow and selection, allowing the player to adapt and respond to threats dynamically.
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Peter Parker’s transformation mechanic and token creation provided defensive capabilities while supporting historic and legendary synergies.
Notable Cards
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Rhythm of the Wild
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Guardian Project
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Enduring Vitality
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Bitter Reunion
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Grave Titan
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Wood Elves
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Minister of Pain
Gameplay Summary
The game featured four commanders from the Spider-Man set, each attempting to leverage their unique mechanics and synergies.
Peter Parker focused on historic and legendary spells, creating spider tokens and transforming into his Amazing Spider-Man form to bolster the board.
Venom (Eddie Brock) aimed to sacrifice and reanimate powerful creatures, looking to deploy threats like Grave Titan to establish a dominating board presence.
Green Goblin employed a looting strategy to cycle through cards quickly, seeking to maintain card advantage and disrupt opponents' plans.
Scarlet Spider, Ben Reilly, played a Gruul landfall-style strategy that emphasized playing big creatures and enhancing them with counters via web-slinging, creating a large, aggressive board state with haste and trample enabled by anthem effects like Rhythm of the Wild and card draw engines like Guardian Project. Key turning points included Scarlet Spider's large 7/4 trample attacker dealing significant damage, putting pressure on the other players early on.
Venom’s inclusion of graveyard interactions and discard outlets also shaped the midgame, allowing for value through sacrifice and reanimation.
The combination of looting and surveilling effects from Green Goblin and Venom contributed to a dynamic flow of cards and resources, while Peter Parker's token generation and eventual transformation provided a steady stream of threats.
The game demonstrated a balance of aggressive board states and value-based strategies centered around synergy with the new Spider-Man commanders and their thematic mechanics.
