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Symbiote Spider-Man

Symbiote Spider-Man

Legendary Creature — Symbiote Spider Hero · {2}{U/B} · Black/Blue commander

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that many cards from the top of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Find New Host — {2}{U/B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains this card's other abilities. Activate only as a sorcery.
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What Symbiote Spider-Man actually does

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What a Symbiote Spider-Man deck wants

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Best cards for Symbiote Spider-Man

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Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  2. Gleaming Overseer3 mana
  3. Galerider Sliver1 mana
  4. Herald of Secret Streams4 mana
  5. Favorable Winds2 mana
  6. Rogue Class2 mana
  7. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  8. Colossus Hammer1 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Symbiote Spider-Man3 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  4. Brain Freeze2 mana
  5. Mindcrank2 mana
  6. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  7. Codex Shredder1 mana
  8. Hedron Crab1 mana

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

  1. Karn's Bastion0 mana
  2. Ripples of Potential2 mana
  3. Thrummingbird2 mana
  4. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  5. Contagion Clasp2 mana
  6. Contentious Plan2 mana
  7. Drown in Ichor2 mana
  8. Experimental Augury2 mana

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

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Defile1 mana
  6. Tragic Slip1 mana
  7. Suspend1 mana
  8. Infernal Grasp2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Displacement Wave2 mana
  4. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Innocent Blood1 mana
  7. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  8. Forced March3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Lively Dirge2 mana
  6. Imperial Seal1 mana
  7. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  8. Diabolic Intent2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Black Market Connections3 mana
  7. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  8. Morbid Opportunist3 mana

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