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Snarespinner

Creature — Spider1 generic manaGreen mana

Reach on a green two-drop is nothing new; the wrinkle here is that blocking a flier doesn't just stop the damage, it turns the block into a kill. A 1/3 body absorbs most early evasive attackers and survives, but the +2/+0 fires only in that specific combat step, only against a creature with flying, and only when this Spider is the one declaring the block. Those three conditions are the whole price of the pump: it becomes a 3/3 for a single turn against exactly the thing green struggles to touch, and does nothing extra against ground creatures or when it attacks. It answers a long-standing color-pie problem (green's traditional weakness to flying) by aiming the reward at the evasive threat rather than the board generally. The design is a defensive specialist wearing an unremarkable two-drop's stat line: cheap enough to hold up early, sticky enough to trade up against evasion, and completely inert against a deck with nothing in the air to punish.

Snarespinner (dmu)
DMU · #179common
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach 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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