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Shelob, Child of Ungoliant

Legendary Creature — Spider Demon · {4}{B}{G} · Black/Green commander

Deathtouch, ward {2} Other Spiders you control have deathtouch and ward {2}. Whenever another creature dealt damage this turn by a Spider you controlled dies, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a Food artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life," and it loses all other card types.

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What Shelob, Child of Ungoliant actually does

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

• Triggered ability · deathWhenever another creature dealt damage this turn by a Spider you controlled dies, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a Food artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You g
• Static ability · keyword_grantOther Spiders you control have deathtouch and ward {2}.
• Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch
• Keyword · wardward

What a Shelob, Child of Ungoliant deck needs

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

• high-value creatures and activated-ability creatures worth copying or borrowing
• creatures that profit from deathtouch/ward (it grants the team them)
• spider creatures (its text counts them)

The Shelob, Child of Ungoliant deck plan

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

• 12× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Shelob, Child of Ungoliant

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.

Combos with Shelob, Child of Ungoliant

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Shelob, Child of Ungoliant is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Shelob, Child of Ungoliant + Thornbite Staff + Viridian Longbow3,469 decks
• Shelob, Child of Ungoliant + Devoted Druid + Viridian Longbow1,613 decks
• Shelob, Child of Ungoliant + Devoted Druid + Ulvenwald Tracker1,161 decks
• Shelob, Child of Ungoliant + Devoted Druid + Setessan Tactics795 decks
• Shelob, Child of Ungoliant + Devoted Druid + Pathway Arrows581 decks
• Shelob, Child of Ungoliant + Thornbite Staff + Wolfhunter's Quiver136 decks

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