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Treetop Snarespinner

Creature — Spider3 generic manaGreen mana

Reach and deathtouch on the same body make a defensive knot: nothing profitably attacks into a 1/4 that kills whatever it touches and can catch fliers off the ground. That pairing has been green's answer to aggressive boards for as long as green has had walls, the blocker that eats a swinging bomb for free and asks nothing in return. What this design adds is a second act. Once the ground has stalled and the beefy attacker has been discouraged, the sorcery-speed counter engine turns a static blocker into a slow-motion aggressor: pump another creature at a rate you can sustain across turns, and the same body that anchored the defense now underwrites the offense. The sorcery-speed clause is the constraint doing the work; you cannot pump in response to a block or a removal spell, so the ability commits during your own main phase and rewards board states you already control rather than combat tricks you spring. It belongs to a green tradition of creatures that pull double duty across the game's phases: stall early, grow late, with deathtouch keeping the wall relevant even after the counters have started flowing elsewhere. It asks for nothing but time and a target, and time is precisely what a 1/4 deathtouch reach body is good at buying.

Treetop Snarespinner (fdn)
FDN · #114common
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) 2 generic manaGreen mana: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legalities

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Standard
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Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
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Commander
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Pauper
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Brawl
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Historic
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Alchemy
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Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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