Deck & Commander Strategies
Cosmic Spider-Man
Leverages a spider tribal theme that grants all spiders multiple powerful combat keywords, enabling fast, aggressive attacks. The deck focuses on buffing spiders and swinging with high-impact creatures to overwhelm opponents.
Norman Osborn // Green Goblin
Utilizes connive mechanics to draw and discard cards, transforming into Green Goblin to reduce spell costs and enable graveyard recursion. The deck plays aggressively with efficient removal and benefits from spells with mayhem effects.
Aunt May
Focuses on token generation and life gain to grow spiders and other creatures. Uses the city's blessing mechanic to produce multiple tokens per turn, creating a wide board presence and gaining incremental advantages through combat.
Mister Negative
Combines life gain triggers with damage-dealing effects like Thorn of Dust, and leverages spell recursion from artifacts like Soul Stone. The deck controls the board through removal and drains opponents while maintaining steady resource advantage.
Gameplay Insights
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Norman Osborn's transformation into Green Goblin enabled spell cost reduction and graveyard recursion, which was pivotal for maintaining board presence and applying pressure.
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Cosmic Spider-Man's ability to grant multiple keywords to all spiders, combined with Roaming Throne doubling spider triggers, created significant combat advantages.
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Aunt May's use of the city's blessing to double token production led to explosive turns with multiple attackers and substantial life gain.
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Mister Negative's life gain triggered damage with Thorn of Dust provided a steady source of incremental damage that pressured opponents indirectly.
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Key removal spells like Heliod's Intervention were used effectively to disrupt token generators and recursion engines, shifting tempo.
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Discarding cards like Jukeabug and Feed the Swarm for card draw and removal underscored the importance of resource cycling in the game.
Notable Cards
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Talisman of Progress
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Ocelot Pride
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Roaming Throne
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Heliod's Intervention
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Big Score
Gameplay Summary
The game unfolded with four Spider-Man-themed commanders battling for control: Cosmic Spider-Man, Norman Osborn (Green Goblin), Aunt May, and Mister Negative.
Early turns involved ramping mana with artifacts like Soul Ring and Talismans, and establishing board presence with creatures such as Ocelot Pride and token generators from Aunt May.
Norman Osborn's ability to connive and transform into Green Goblin allowed for efficient graveyard interaction and aggressive plays, including recurring spells and feeding the swarm effects.
Cosmic Spider-Man showcased a strong synergy with other spiders, granting his entire team powerful keywords like flying, first strike, trample, lifelink, and haste, which helped swing the board state in his favor through high-impact combat turns. Aunt May capitalized on token generation and life gain, growing her spiders and creating multiple attackers during combat phases, while also leveraging the city's blessing mechanic for explosive token production.
Mister Negative utilized life gain triggers to drain opponents’ life via Thorn of Dust and disrupted creatures with spell recursion from Soul Stone.
Key moments included Norman Osborn transforming and using graveyard spells to remove threats, Cosmic Spider-Man swinging for massive damage with empowered spiders, and Aunt May's ability to flood the board with tokens and buff her creatures.
The game featured multiple combat exchanges that steadily chipped away at players' life totals, with strategic removal and recursion spells influencing tempo and board control.
The synergy among spiders and token creatures was a defining feature, and the game likely ended with one of the aggressive spider decks overwhelming the others through continuous combat pressure and value generation.
