Scarlet Spider, Ben Reilly

Web-slinging is the mechanic that finally gives tempo decks a reason to want their own creatures back, and this is the card that punishes you for playing small. The bounce clause reads like a cost, but Sensational Save turns it into a payoff: return a tapped creature and the counters scale off its mana value, so the "penalty" of picking up a five-drop is five extra points of stats stapled to a body that already tramples. The tension the design resolves is the one every returned-creature effect fumbles: bouncing your own board sacrifices tempo and battlefield presence, and here it is laundered into raw size. The tapped requirement is the discipline holding it together; you need a creature that is already tapped, so the alternative cast wants a permanent that has already spent itself (attacked into a tapped state, or tapped for mana or an activated ability), then recasts it as a growth spell for a discounted attacker. That sequencing rewards a curve built to leave something tapped and expendable rather than a pile of hasty one-drops. Fixed at the printed cost with no web-slinging, he is a plain trampling 4/3; cast off the alternative, the ceiling is a green-red beater whose size is dictated entirely by what you were willing to send home. It is a rare piece of aggressive design where the second half of your turn feeds the first, and the bigger the creature you return to tempo, the harder the follow-up hits.