Gloomwidow

Reach has always been a one-sided bargain: a creature gains permission to block fliers without giving up its ability to wall off the ground. This Spider inverts that generosity. The keyword grants the upward reach, and the very next line revokes everything else, locking the body to the sky and forbidding it from stopping a single ground attacker. The two clauses pull in opposite directions, and the restriction is sharper than the keyword that earns it. What that buys is an aggressively statted green three-drop priced as a pure anti-air specialist: a 3/3 that sits openly on the board and dares anything with wings to swing into it, while contributing nothing to a ground stall. That is a pointed, slightly perverse place for a green body to live, since green's defensive identity is usually total board coverage rather than a single narrow lane. The design reads as a deliberate experiment in shrinking a defensive role until it does exactly one job and declines every other, the kind of constrained creature that shows up when a set wants its midrange-rarity commons-adjacent slots to carry personality instead of universal utility. It deters fliers by presence, not by surprise; the deterrence is the whole function, and the absence of any ground relevance is the cost the stat line is paying for.