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Spider-Man, Hometown Hero

Legendary Creature — Spider Human Hero4 generic manaRed mana

The enters trigger tells you exactly who this card is for: a red aggro deck built on small, evasive threats. Reach on a five-mana 5/4 is pure flavor and defensive insurance, but the payoff is the unblockable clause, which reads as a swing-enabler that plays to red's low-power creature base rather than the fatties. Look at what limits the effect: it only touches a creature with power 2 or less, and only for that one turn. That ceiling is deliberate. This is not a Falter effect that clears a lopsided board; it is a scalpel that pushes through a single lethal attacker, a token, or a menace-adjacent one-drop while everything larger stays subject to the ground stall. The design logic is a body-and-payoff split: the reach ostensibly patches the defensive hole a swarm deck creates for itself, while the trigger hands that same swarm its finishing blow. A card that wants a wide board of little creatures behind it, then arrives to declare which one connects.

Spider-Man, Hometown Hero (msc)
MSC · #857common
Pricing
Normal: $0.72
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) When Spider-Man enters, target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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