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Sentinel Spider

Creature — Spider3 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Both keywords pull in the same direction here, and that direction is defense. Reach lets a 4/4 wall off the air; vigilance means attacking with it never costs you a blocker. Together they describe a creature that holds two zones of the battlefield at once, plugging the ground and the sky while still threatening a swing on your own terms. The body is the unremarkable part: a five-mana 4/4 has never been a rate that excites anyone, and the card's entire pitch is that it does its work on the defensive turns rather than the aggressive ones. That makes it a creature for the player who wants to stabilize and grind, the green deck buying time to reach its top end. It is the green-common workhorse template that has surfaced in many forms across the years: a clean, redundant beater built to outlast a beatdown rather than start one. There is no trick, nothing waiting on the stack, no late-game scaling. What you get is a creature that attacks and blocks in the same breath, dependable set-filling design that keeps a curve honest without ever asking the deckbuilder to think very hard.

Sentinel Spider (anb)
ANB · #104uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.16
Oracle Text

Rules text

Vigilance, reach
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
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
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

4 sets
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