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Mary Jane Watson

Legendary Creature — Human Performer1 generic manaGreen or White mana

The rate-limiter is doing the heavy lifting here. A tribal payoff that draws whenever your Spiders enter the battlefield is normally a run-away engine: chain enough triggers in a turn and the card advantage snowballs past the point of interaction. Capping the draw to once each turn turns that engine into a steady drip, which is exactly the discipline a two-mana body needs to be printable. You are not being rewarded for going wide with Spiders on a single turn; you are being rewarded for adding a new Spider to the board every turn, one at a time, which frames the card as a value anchor rather than a combo piece. The Selesnya identity reinforces the shape: green fills the board and white protects it, and the once-per-turn clause asks you to keep a stream of bodies coming rather than dump your hand in a single burst. There is a design honesty to putting a card-draw ability on a fragile 2/2 with a legend clause: it invites removal, and every point of pressure your opponent spends to deny your draws is pressure they cannot spend elsewhere. The flavor and the function line up cleanly, tying a Spider-summoning draw engine to the character most synonymous with that particular web of relationships. It is a tribal lord's replacement for the anthem, trading stat-pumping for information and asking the deck to earn its cards a summon at a time.

Mary Jane Watson (spm)
SPM · #229rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.47
Foil: $0.65
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever a Spider you control enters, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

3 sets
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