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Netcaster Spider

Creature — Spider2 generic manaGreen mana

Reach has always been a defensive concession: it lets a grounded body trade up against the air force, but the spider or treefolk doing the blocking usually dies for its trouble against anything bigger than a one-drop flier. This design tweaks that contract. The +2/+0 on a block conditioned specifically on flying creatures turns a passive 2/3 wall into a 4/3 ambusher the moment a flier commits to the attack, which is exactly the size needed to eat most early-game evasive threats and survive. The pump is the whole point: it only fires on the block, only against flying, and only for the turn, so the card never threatens anything on offense and gives up nothing in the rate. It is green's color-pie answer to flying done as a combat trick baked into the creature rather than a separate card, and it punishes the kind of player who treats a reach blocker as a free chump rather than a real obstacle. A flier-heavy attacker that ignores the spider learns the hard way that the body grows to meet the threat.

Netcaster Spider (ogw)
OGW · #137common
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Whenever this creature blocks a creature with flying, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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