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Scarlet Spider, Kaine

Scarlet Spider, Kaine

Legendary Creature — Spider Human Hero · {B}{R} · Black/Red commander

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When Scarlet Spider enters, you may discard a card. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on him. Mayhem {B/R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for {B/R} if you discarded it this turn. Timing rules still apply.)
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What Scarlet Spider, Kaine actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Scarlet Spider, Kaine deck needs

Plays as discard. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Scarlet Spider, Kaine deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Scarlet Spider, Kaine

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  2. Scheming Aspirant2 mana
  3. Cacophony Scamp1 mana
  4. Glistening Sphere3 mana
  5. Walking Ballista0 mana
  6. Forge of Heroes0 mana
  7. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  8. Stonecoil Serpent0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Defile1 mana
  3. Tragic Slip1 mana
  4. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  5. Terminate2 mana
  6. Fatal Push1 mana
  7. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  8. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  8. Crypt Rats3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  8. The One Ring4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Rakdos Signet2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Chrome Mox0 mana
  6. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  7. Mox Diamond0 mana
  8. Mana Vault1 mana

Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of

  1. Basilisk Collar1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Sword of the Animist2 mana
  6. Shadowspear1 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Paradise Mantle0 mana

Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards

  1. Geier Reach Sanitarium0 mana
  2. Fomori Vault0 mana
  3. Spymaster's Vault0 mana
  4. Cryptbreaker1 mana
  5. Pip-Boy 30001 mana
  6. Tortured Existence1 mana
  7. Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
  8. Artist's Talent2 mana

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