Mechanics

A +1/+1 counter adds one power and one toughness; a −1/−1 counter subtracts one of each. These counters stay until removed or the object changes zones.

Watch out: If a permanent has both kinds, matching pairs are removed as a state-based action. A temporary +1/+1 effect is not a counter.

Angry RabbleAnti-Venom, Horrifying HealerAraña, Heart of the SpiderAll 44 in Cards →

CR 122.1a · CR 704.5q ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Spider-Ham, Peter PorkerIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Scout the CityIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-ManIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Secret IdentityIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

Draw, then discard; a discarded nonland gives the conniving creature a +1/+1 counter.

Doc Ock's HenchmenMechanical MobsterMob LookoutAll 7 in Cards →

Release notes ↗·#

While paying for this spell, each untapped creature you tap can cover one generic mana, or one mana of that creature’s color.

Watch out: You may tap a creature you just played. A colorless creature can cover only generic mana.

Web of Life and DestinyIn Cards →

CR 702.51 ↗·#

To counter a spell or ability is to remove it from the stack without its effects resolving. A countered spell normally goes to its owner’s graveyard.

Watch out: This use of “counter” is different from placing a marker such as a +1/+1 counter on a card.

Amazing AcrobaticsCounterspellMystic ConfluenceAll 8 in Cards →

CR 701.6 ↗·#

Tap other untapped creatures you control with enough total power to turn this Vehicle into an artifact creature until the turn ends.

Watch out: The crew creatures do not become the Vehicle’s attackers. A newly played Vehicle still needs haste to attack that turn.

Passenger FerrySpider-MobileSubway TrainAll 3 in Cards →

CR 702.122 ↗·#

Enough useful low-cost plays to act before your expensive threats.

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Mister NegativeIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Heroes' HangoutIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

Any positive amount of damage this source deals to a creature is enough to make that damage lethal.

Watch out: It works with a fight or other noncombat damage. Indestructible still prevents destruction.

Green Goblin, RevenantGwenom, RemorselessRadioactive SpiderAll 6 in Cards →

CR 702.2 ↗·#

This creature cannot attack.

Watch out: It can still block and use its abilities unless something else prevents that.

Spider-Man No MoreWall CrawlAll 2 in Cards →

CR 702.3 ↗·#

Move a permanent from the battlefield to its owner’s graveyard because an effect or lethal damage destroys it.

Watch out: Indestructible stops destruction. Sacrificing, exiling, and reducing toughness to 0 are different ways for a creature to leave.

Beast WithinFeed the SwarmHexAll 15 in Cards →

CR 701.8 ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Stegron the Dinosaur ManIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

Move a card from your hand to your graveyard.

Watch out: Discarding is not casting. It does not pay the card’s mana cost or produce its normal spell effect.

Alien SymbiosisChameleon, Master of DisguiseDoc Ock's HenchmenAll 32 in Cards →

CR 701.9 ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

School DazeIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

This label groups effects that count the basic land types among lands you control: Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest.

Watch out: Count types, not lands. A nonbasic land with a basic land type can count; a land with none of those types does not.

Leyline BindingIn Cards →

CR 207.2c · CR 305.6 ↗·#

Follow what is being doubled. Doubling power or toughness adds a modifier based on its current value; doubling counters adds as many of that kind as are already present.

Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-ManIn Cards →

CR 701.10 ↗·#

This creature deals combat damage in the first-strike damage step and again in the normal damage step if it is still in combat.

Watch out: If its blocker dies in the first step, a blocked attacker does not hit the player in the second step unless an ability such as trample allows it.

Origin of Spider-ManSavage BeatingSpider-Man 2099All 4 in Cards →

CR 702.4 ↗·#

An Aura’s enchant line tells you what it may be attached to.

Watch out: An Aura cast as a spell targets what it will enchant. If it later becomes illegally attached, it normally goes to the graveyard.

Alien SymbiosisFriendly NeighborhoodRobotics MasteryAll 5 in Cards →

CR 702.5 ↗·#

You may pay the extra entwine cost to choose all of this spell’s modes. Resolve the chosen modes in their printed order.

Savage BeatingIn Cards →

CR 702.42 ↗·#

Pay the equip cost to attach this Equipment to a target creature you control. Normally, activate equip only in your main phase when the stack is empty.

Watch out: The Equipment usually stays on the battlefield when the creature leaves. Moving it to another creature normally costs another equip activation.

Biorganic CarapaceDoc Ock's TentaclesRocket-Powered Goblin GliderAll 5 in Cards →

CR 702.6 ↗·#

Move the object to the exile zone. It is separate from the graveyard.

Watch out: A card in exile cannot normally be played. You need a rule or effect giving permission, such as a resolved Adventure.

Araña, Heart of the SpiderBeetle, Legacy CriminalBlack Cat, Cunning ThiefAll 27 in Cards →

CR 701.13 ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Radioactive SpiderIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Wraith, Vicious VigilanteIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

The two creatures each deal damage equal to their power to the other at the same time.

Watch out: This is not combat. First strike and double strike do not add damage steps; deathtouch and lifelink still affect damage.

Kapow!Rhino's RampageSchool DazeAll 3 in Cards →

CR 701.14 ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

School DazeIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Symbiote Spider-ManIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

This creature deals combat damage in an earlier step, before creatures without first strike or double strike.

Watch out: A creature killed in that early damage step usually cannot deal its normal combat damage.

Cosmic Spider-ManHeroes' HangoutMiles Morales // Ultimate Spider-ManAll 5 in Cards →

CR 702.7 ↗·#

You may cast this spell when you could cast an instant, including during another player’s turn when you have priority.

Watch out: Flash changes when you may cast it. It does not let you cast from a different zone or avoid its costs.

Agent VenomDoc Ock's HenchmenFlash Thompson, Spider-FanAll 8 in Cards →

CR 702.8 ↗·#

An attacking creature with flying can be blocked only by creatures with flying or reach.

Watch out: A flying creature can block a creature without flying.

Beetle, Legacy CriminalCity PigeonCosmic Spider-ManAll 28 in Cards →

CR 702.9 ↗·#

A standard Food token is an artifact with an ability costing two mana, tapping it, and sacrificing it to gain 3 life.

Watch out: Food is also an artifact type. Turning a card into a Food follows that effect’s text; the type alone does not grant an ability.

City PigeonHot Dog CartKraven, Proud PredatorAll 4 in Cards →

CR 111.10b ↗·#

A Food token is an artifact with “{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.” Printed Food cards can have other abilities.

City PigeonHot Dog CartSpider-Ham, Peter PorkerAll 3 in Cards →

CR 111.10b ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Spider-Man 2099In Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Norman Osborn // Green GoblinIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

Harnessing The Soul Stone enables its infinity ability while it remains on the battlefield.

The Soul StoneIn Cards →

Release notes ↗·#

This creature may attack and use abilities with the tap or untap symbol even if you have not controlled it since your turn began.

Watch out: It still needs to be untapped to attack or pay a tap cost.

Alibou, Ancient WitnessCosmic Spider-ManEddie Brock // Venom, Lethal ProtectorAll 15 in Cards →

CR 702.10 ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Flash Thompson, Spider-FanIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Flash Thompson, Spider-FanIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A permanent with hexproof cannot be targeted by spells or abilities its controller’s opponents control.

Watch out: Its controller may target it. Effects that do not target can still affect it.

Doc Ock, Sinister ScientistHeroic InterventionMiles Morales // Ultimate Spider-ManAll 8 in Cards →

CR 702.11 ↗·#

Each split mana symbol can be paid using either half. For example, {W/U} costs one white or one blue mana; {2/B} costs two mana of any type or one black mana.

Watch out: Choose separately for each symbol. A {W/U} card is both white and blue even if you use only one color to cast it.

Cheering CrowdGallant CitizenMary Jane WatsonAll 15 in Cards →

CR 107.4e ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Damage Control CrewIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

This permanent cannot be destroyed by lethal damage or an effect that says “destroy.”

Watch out: It can still be exiled or sacrificed. A creature with toughness 0 or less still goes to the graveyard.

Heroic InterventionSpectacular Spider-ManStrength of WillAll 4 in Cards →

CR 702.12 ↗·#

Damage to players gives poison counters instead of life loss. Damage to creatures gives -1/-1 counters instead of marked damage. Other damage consequences still apply.

Skithiryx, the Blight DragonIn Cards →

CR 702.90 ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Daily Bugle ReportersIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

As you cast the spell, you may pay its extra kicker cost. The card tells you what changes if you do.

Watch out: You decide and pay while casting. You do not get to add kicker after the spell has resolved.

Rite of ReplicationWhoosh!All 2 in Cards →

CR 702.33 ↗·#

When this source deals damage, its controller gains that much life at the same time.

Watch out: This also works for noncombat damage. It uses the damage actually dealt, not simply the creature’s printed power.

Cosmic Spider-ManGwenom, RemorselessMerciless EnforcersAll 8 in Cards →

CR 702.15 ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Lizard, Connors's CurseIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Scout the CityIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

If you discarded this card this turn, you may cast it from the graveyard for its mayhem cost.

Carnage, Crimson ChaosChameleon, Master of DisguiseElectro's BoltAll 13 in Cards →

Release notes ↗·#

This attacking creature cannot be blocked by just one creature; at least two blockers are needed.

Watch out: It can still go unblocked. Losing one blocker after blocks are declared does not undo the original block.

Agent VenomAlien SymbiosisDaily Bugle BuildingAll 11 in Cards →

CR 702.111 ↗·#

Put the stated number of cards from the top of the named player’s library into that player’s graveyard.

Watch out: Milling is not drawing. An empty library makes you lose when you must draw from it, not merely when its last card is milled.

Eerie GravestoneKraven's Last HuntMadame Web, ClairvoyantAll 7 in Cards →

CR 701.17 ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Superior Spider-ManIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

Choose a face when casting. A printed transform ability can later change the permanent to its other face.

Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal ProtectorGwen Stacy // Ghost-SpiderMiles Morales // Ultimate Spider-ManAll 5 in Cards →

Release notes ↗·#

A creature is modified if it has a counter, is equipped, or is enchanted by an Aura you control.

Araña, Heart of the SpiderBiorganic CarapaceCostume ClosetAll 7 in Cards →

Release notes ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Bagel and SchmearIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Heroes' HangoutIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Spider-Man IndiaIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Daily Bugle ReportersIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

This creature may block creatures with flying.

Watch out: Reach does not give it flying or make its own attacks harder to block.

ArachnogenesisArasta of the Endless WebEzekiel Sims, Spider-TotemAll 13 in Cards →

CR 702.17 ↗·#

Create a shield for the next time this permanent would be destroyed this turn: instead tap it, remove its marked damage and remove it from combat. This cannot prevent sacrifice or death from zero toughness.

Skithiryx, the Blight DragonIn Cards →

CR 701.19 ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Damage Control CrewIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

As this permanent enters, choose an additional +1/+1 counter or haste. The choice is made as it enters, before anyone can respond.

Spider-PunkIn Cards →

CR 702.136 ↗·#

Move a permanent you control from the battlefield to its owner’s graveyard.

Watch out: Sacrifice is not destruction: indestructible does not stop it. You cannot sacrifice a teammate’s permanent unless an effect specifically permits it.

Bagel and SchmearCarnage, Crimson ChaosCity PigeonAll 23 in Cards →

CR 701.21 ↗·#

A Saga normally enters with a lore counter and gains another as your first main phase begins. Reaching chapter numbers triggers those chapter abilities.

Watch out: The new lore counter is not added during upkeep. When its final chapter ability is no longer on the stack, you normally sacrifice the Saga.

Kraven's Last HuntMaximum CarnageOrigin of Spider-ManAll 5 in Cards →

CR 714.2 · CR 714.3 · CR 714.4 ↗·#

Look at the stated number of cards from the top of your library. Put any number on the bottom and the rest back on top, choosing their order.

Watch out: Scry does not draw a card. Cards you move to the bottom do not go to the graveyard.

Alibou, Ancient WitnessIn Cards →

CR 701.22 ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Scarlet Spider, Ben ReillyIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Bagel and SchmearIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

Repeated useful late cards may suggest an open color; one card is weak evidence.

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Daily Bugle BuildingIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Shriek, TreblemakerIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

The actual cards and mana that let a payoff work.

Look at the stated number of cards from the top of your library. Put any number into your graveyard and the rest back on top in your chosen order.

Watch out: Surveil does not draw a card. Unlike scry, unwanted cards go to the graveyard instead of the bottom.

Ominous AsylumRisky ResearchSavage MansionAll 8 in Cards →

CR 701.25 ↗·#

A suspected creature has menace and cannot block. It stays suspected until it leaves the battlefield or an effect removes that designation.

J. Jonah JamesonIn Cards →

CR 701.60 ↗·#

Tap means turn a permanent sideways; untap means return it upright. A tap symbol in a cost means you must tap that permanent to pay.

Watch out: Being tapped by another effect does not activate an ability or produce mana. Creatures normally cannot pay their own tap-symbol costs until you have controlled them since your turn began.

Alibou, Ancient WitnessAmazing AcrobaticsArachne, Psionic WeaverAll 65 in Cards →

CR 701.26 ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Kraven, Proud PredatorIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

An attacking creature can assign excess combat damage to what it is attacking after assigning lethal damage to every blocker.

Watch out: It does not automatically send all damage past a small blocker. Trample on a blocking creature does not send damage to the attacking player.

Angry RabbleCarnage, Crimson ChaosCosmic Spider-ManAll 14 in Cards →

CR 702.19 ↗·#

A standard Treasure token is an artifact you can tap and sacrifice to add one mana of any color.

Watch out: A Treasure is not a land. Using it spends the token; it does not remain for another turn.

Common CrookJ. Jonah JamesonPictures of Spider-ManAll 6 in Cards →

CR 111.10a ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Shadow of the GoblinIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Shadow of the GoblinIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Spider-Woman, Stunning SaviorIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Shocker, UnshakableIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

Attacking does not tap this creature.

Watch out: It must still be untapped to be declared as an attacker. Vigilance does not remove summoning sickness.

Gwen Stacy // Ghost-SpiderIron Spider, Stark UpgradeKraven, Proud PredatorAll 13 in Cards →

CR 702.20 ↗·#

When an opponent’s spell or ability targets this permanent, ward triggers. That spell or ability is countered unless the opponent pays the ward cost.

Watch out: Ward is not hexproof: the opponent can target it and choose whether to pay. An effect that does not target does not trigger ward.

Skyward SpiderSpider-Rex, Daring DinoAll 2 in Cards →

CR 702.21 ↗·#

A flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.

Guy in the ChairIn Cards →

CR 207.2d ↗·#

Pay the alternative web-slinging cost and return a tapped creature you control to its owner’s hand.

Arachne, Psionic WeaverPeter Parker // Amazing Spider-ManScarlet Spider, Ben ReillyAll 10 in Cards →

Release notes ↗·#