Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-Man
The front face is a modest counter-placer: two mana, a 1/2 body, and an enters trigger that seeds counters on two creatures as it arrives. That seeding is the entire point, because the flip side is a counter-doubling engine that punishes you for having built up small. The transform is gated hard: six mana across three colors, sorcery speed only, no combat trick about it. What you get on the other side rewrites the math of your board. Doubling every kind of counter on each Spider and legendary creature you control every time you attack means the growth is not additive but geometric, and it reads each kind, so keeper counters, loyalty-style counters, or anything else riding on your legends compounds alongside the +1/+1s.
The Camouflage line is the piece that keeps the engine alive: a repeatable two-mana pump that also hands out hexproof and colorless status until end of turn, which is both a counter for the doubling loop to feed on and a shield against targeted removal during the turn it matters most. First strike and haste on the flip side mean the doubled attacker can swing the turn it arrives and strike before creatures without first strike. The design leans on a familiar tension in counter decks: the front half wants you to go wide and slow, the back half wants you to have already committed, and the reward for surviving the flip is a board that stops being linear.





