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Spider-Islanders

Creature — Spider Horror Citizen3 generic manaRed mana

Discard-matters aggro has always wrestled with the same tension: the payoff for filling your graveyard is that you no longer have the card in hand to cast. Mayhem answers that by letting the discarded card cast itself, and a 4/3 body is the right shape to make the arithmetic sting. The graveyard-cast cost of 1 generic manaRed mana undercuts the 3 generic manaRed mana face cost by two, so rummaging effects, madness enablers, and looting all stop being pure card disadvantage: the discard is a discount, not a loss. The turn-locked window is what keeps the mechanic honest. You have to have thrown this away this turn, so it rewards decks built to churn cards rather than decks that stumble one into the yard and hope to buy it back three turns later. Timing rules still applying means the graveyard cast obeys the same sorcery-speed constraint the creature already has, so there is no instant-speed ambush hiding in the text; the value is entirely in sequencing your discard and your recast into the same turn. It is a build-around in the plainest sense: unremarkable if you hard-cast it, but a two-for-one engine the moment your deck is designed to feed it to the graveyard on purpose.

Spider-Islanders (om1)
OM1 · #94common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.13
Oracle Text

Rules text

Mayhem 1 generic manaRed mana (You may cast this card from your graveyard for 1 generic manaRed mana if you discarded it this turn. Timing rules still apply.)
Legalities

Format Status

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