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Spider-Byte, Web Warden

Legendary Creature — Spider Avatar Hero2 generic manaBlue mana

The bounce-on-entry creature is one of tempo's oldest tools, and the design lives entirely in the breadth of "up to one target nonland permanent." That clause reaches further than the classic templates that only hit creatures: an opposing enchantment, a problematic artifact, a planeswalker, or one of your own permanents when you want to reload an enters-the-battlefield trigger. The "up to" makes it a soft engine rather than a mandatory tempo swing, so an empty board never leaves you stranded holding a 2/2 you cannot deploy for value. That 2/2 body is deliberately unimpressive, because the rate is buying the reset, not the beater; anything larger stapled to a repeatable bounce enabler drifts toward oppressive. Where the card earns its keep is in loops: any way to blink or recur it turns a one-shot tempo spell into a recurring answer to whatever the opponent just resolved, and the ability to target your own board means you can pick up another of your creatures to re-trigger its arrival before replaying it. The bounce resolves as an entry trigger rather than an activated ability, so it happens whether or not the creature survives, which matters against decks that want to kill it in response. This is a modest, honest piece of interaction dressed as a body: unremarkable on its face, quietly load-bearing in any deck built to cast it more than once.

Spider-Byte, Web Warden (om1)
OM1 · #26uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
Foil: $0.31
Oracle Text

Rules text

When Spider-Byte enters, return up to one target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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