I promised you powerhouses, and with these five cards from Marvel’s Spider-Man, you’ll be getting them. The final one on this list is by far my favorite, and I expect to build a deck around it basically as soon as I can.
Back again, back again, to Marvel’s Spider-Man. And this time, we have our first (and only) flip card out of the whole set. Because of my rules about WUBRG order and alphabetical order, this chunk of five is a little chaotic, but there are some excellent—and I assume generally undervalued—cards mixed in.
Considering how often we review Marvel movies/shows and new Magic: The Gathering sets here at Sci-Fi Bloggers, it feels extremely fitting to go over the upcoming (like, coming out this month) Marvel’s Spider-Man cards. They are even—somehow—Standard legal, so anyone playing that format on Arena is going to run into these options.
Wolf King is the worst show I’ve seen in a long time. It clearly wants to be like Avatar: The Last Airbender (even having a knock-off “my cabbages” joke), but it starts off terrible, predictable, and shoddy, and doesn’t rise all that far from that.
“The Past is The Past” is both an ending I’d want from a show, and way off from what I expected for this show specifically. Or any Marvel show, really.
“Karma’s a Glitch” has the pacing and progression of a movie, and I loved that about it. The series has been building up for so long that just having a bunch of classic superhero moments chained together was deeply satisfying.
Tezzeret’s abilities are mostly just handy, yes, but you need to remember that it’s also a three-mana planeswalker that can go in any deck that cares about artifacts. And Edge of Eternities cards often care about artifacts.
Loading Zone is one of my favorite Warp cards. Pay one mana, then go off stationing Spacecrafts, making your lands better, or just make a big monster. If you have extra mana later—and haven’t won the game yet—then you can further press your advantage.
It takes a decent amount of setup for really powerful turns, but I read Bioengineered Future as “each creature you control enters with a +1/+1 counter” (or however the language has to be for the rules to work). And that’s pretty dang potent for three mana.
Edge of Eternities has an enchantment like this in every color, but Pain for All is the only one I think is good enough for standard.
It’s not the best “exile everything” spell that Standard has seen, but Beyond the Quiet will become a staple of any WU control deck, and will be multiple copies in that deck.
I was so concerned during the first half of “Bad Magic.” Nothing seemed to be happening. Riri was sitting in her trauma, and getting increasingly paranoid, but I was genuinely worried that nothing would push the plot forward until the next episode.
