The Spiders of Eldritch Moon
Hello everybody, I was intrigued by a newly revealed card from Eldritch Moon, Ishkanah, Grafwidow. I was reading and found that people had been asking for a spider commander. I just can't understand why. I looked on Gatherer and found that there are almost no tribal benefits for spiders other than Ishkanah. Do you think perhaps, that you guys could make some more cards that actually care whether there are spiders on the battlefield? Most spiders have reach, and can often remove flying creatures without blocking them. The usual spider token is a green 1/2 creature with reach. They have a graveyard subtheme thanks almost entirely to Spider Spawning.
Rules:
Should benefit you in some way if you do something with spiders.
Has to be green and/or black. There can be no activated abilities of any other color.
Shouldn't be broken.
Prizes:
I will make a card of everyone who participates, no matter how well they do.
1st: A Trophy, a follow, and 10 favorites.
2nd: a follow and 5 favorites.
3rd: 3 favorites and the privilege to choose an honorable mention, who also gets 3 favorites.
Example
NEW RULE: If a piece of art is on more than one card only one of those cards will be eligible for a prize.
Rules:
Should benefit you in some way if you do something with spiders.
Has to be green and/or black. There can be no activated abilities of any other color.
Shouldn't be broken.
Prizes:
I will make a card of everyone who participates, no matter how well they do.
1st: A Trophy, a follow, and 10 favorites.
2nd: a follow and 5 favorites.
3rd: 3 favorites and the privilege to choose an honorable mention, who also gets 3 favorites.
Example
NEW RULE: If a piece of art is on more than one card only one of those cards will be eligible for a prize.
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This could also be used as a tribal commander, but would have to be monogreen.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/mihrka-eternal-weaver
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/fraagmath-stalker-beneath
Solvent-Strand Spinner
The main weakness of Spiders is that they don't offer a real win condition; they have uniformly low power, and they lack evasion or trample to chip away at opponents with. Ishkanah tries to do that with her life-loss ability, but in EDH especially, 4-6 life for 7 mana is pretty meh.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/venomous-virulence
Spiders already have a poison subtheme (deathtouch), so I just amped that up. Considered 'Spiders you control have poisonous N, where N is the number of creature cards in your graveyard' but that gets out of hand pretty fast. Infect is already a pretty volatile mechanic.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/sporehost-spinner
It's hybrid because both spiders and thallid decks do dip into black and green, which are basically the only colors they run. Although, having multiples out is absolutely terrifying.
Do you guys mind if I make some entries, they won't actually be considered for a prize or anything, but this just seems like such a cool contest.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/woven-destiny
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/the-gitrog-archlegs?list=user
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/skullback-lunger
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/spiders-lair-1
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/mistress-modir?list=user
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/blightfang-recluse?list=user , some odd reason when I was setting up Blightfang, it cam eout weird XD.
This contest will end on August 1st.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/infuriated-arachnids?list=user I also remembered that spiders usually have an unusually high toughness.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/silk-cocoon-broodmother?list=user
I was able to work thirteen in there. Also an alternate win condition.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/deepwoods-lurker
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/hellcluster-tyrant
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/towering-woe?list=user
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/kozileks-wastewalker?list=user
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/graugul-vicious-spawner
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/poisonous-swamphopper