Spider-Man, Brooklyn Visionary

Green ramp payoffs cluster at four and five mana with no built-in way to reclaim the tempo they spend, so a five-drop that fetches a basic land still cedes a turn of pressure. The alternative cost fixes that by letting a spent attacker foot the bill: send in your creatures, then bounce a tapped one back to your hand and the price drops to . The design rewards committing to the board first, because the discount is only available to a player who already has a creature in play doing work. That reframes green's long-standing awkwardness with self-bounce, where sending your own creature home reads as undoing progress. Here it reads as sequencing: attack, reset a creature that already got its damage in, and reload the land-fetch at a rebate. The reduction is flat rather than scaling (one tapped creature and , no matter what), so the payoff is tempo recovery, not runaway acceleration. The 4/3 body is modest for the printed cost, but the card is not sold on its stats. It is sold on the arithmetic between the bounce and the entry trigger: every casting puts another basic onto the battlefield tapped, and the creature you returned to hand is an asset you get to redeploy rather than a resource you spent. Web-slinging asks you to pay in board presence you have already cashed in, then hands back a land for the trouble. A green midrange piece built to turn combat that already happened into mana that is still coming.