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Black Widow, Agile Avenger

Legendary Creature — Human Spy Hero1 generic manaRed manaWhite mana

Espionage as a punishment mechanic: the trigger fires not on the first card an opponent draws each turn (their natural draw step), but on the second, which means it does nothing to a durdling opponent and everything to one leaning on a card-advantage engine. That targeting is the clever part. The players most likely to feed it are exactly the ones who cast Rhystic Study, crack a fetch into a cantrip, or run a Howling Mine that suddenly cuts both ways. Each qualifying draw is a two-for-one in your favor: a counter that grows the 2/2 body toward relevance and a card that keeps your hand stocked, all off someone else's greed. Menace matters because a slow-scaling body needs to keep connecting to be worth anything, and once the draw engines across the pod are humming, the creature gets meaningfully larger without you spending a card. The whole thing functions as a soft governor on group-hug and draw-doubler strategies: it doesn't stop anyone from drawing, it taxes the pace, turning every extra card into a resource you siphon off. The ceiling depends entirely on how much the opposition wants to draw, which makes it a reactive threat rather than a proactive one: a creature that punishes greed but sits inert against opponents who respect it.

Black Widow, Agile Avenger (msc)
MSC · #395rare
Pricing
Normal: $38.79
Foil: $7.14
Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Black Widow and you draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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