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Orbweaver Kumo

Creature — Spirit4 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Reach is the static half, letting this 3/4 cover the ground and the air at once, but the triggered half rewrites the body's job: cast a single Spirit or Arcane spell and the wall becomes an attacker that walks past any Forest-heavy board. Note the timing precisely. The grant keys off casting, not resolution, so the lane opens as soon as the trigger resolves: the trigger fires regardless of whether the spell survives, and the forestwalk is online well before blockers are declared. That puts the work in the precombat main phase, where you cast your spell and then swing through the open path. Stacking does nothing useful, though, since every instance lapses together at end of turn; one qualifying cast is the whole payoff, and a second is wasted motion. The evasion also keys entirely to the opponent's manabase, punishing Forest mirrors and meaning nothing against decks that never tap green. This belongs to an early spellslinger-tribal idiom, where committing to a single spell type bought incremental combat utility rather than raw stats, and a defensive midrange creature earned its keep by converting one cast into a connecting swing. Conditional evasion folded into a tribal payoff: a wall whose attacking mode unlocks on the announcement of a spell, and only against the right color of mana.

Orbweaver Kumo (chk)
CHK · #231uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, this creature gains forestwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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