Graverobber Spider
3G
Creature — Spider
2/4
Reach
3B: Graverobber Spider gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. Activate this ability only once each turn.
A strictly better card than Giant Spider, which I believe is the first strictly better giant spider since it was first printed in Alpha.
Seems pretty great in the limited G/B graveyard strategy.
BG control is a good archetype in triple-Theros limited, and it will probably remain intact with the addition of Born of the Gods. This is great just as a Giant Spider, and the ability gives you slightly more incentive to play those Returned Centaurs.
Rarity doesn't matter for stricly better. I believe this is the first, and it looks totally sweet for limited. Also presumably part of a 5/10 card off color activation cycle.
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I primarily play limited, so most of my spoiler season comments view cards through that lens.
I love giant spider. Reach, like trample and vigilance, is one of those abilities that people shrug off until that one day when all they have is a vaporkin and staring this bad boy in the face
Rarity doesn't matter for stricly better. I believe this is the first, and it looks totally sweet for limited. Also presumably part of a 5/10 card off color activation cycle.
Word to the wise: without references in support of the claims on MTGS or any wiki, take it with a grain of salt.
Would you say this card is "strictly better" than Giant Spider in pauper, one of the most popular online formats?
No, but that doesn't really matter, for the same reason that talking about a card being strictly worse than Ancestral Recall doesn't matter; why compare to a card that you can't play? If you're talking about pauper, why make any comparison or acknowledge the existence of any card that can't be played in that format? It's pointless.
Very literal definitions of "strictly better" annoy me, because they are useless. If you take the most literal definition of the term, it is only ever used to correct people who use a looser definition. That's it. It has no actual purpose except to be pedantic and irritating.
No, but that doesn't really matter, for the same reason that talking about a card being strictly worse than Ancestral Recall doesn't matter; why compare to a card that you can't play? If you're talking about pauper, why make any comparison or acknowledge the existence of any card that can't be played in that format? It's pointless.
Very literal definitions of "strictly better" annoy me, because they are useless. If you take the most literal definition of the term, it is only ever used to correct people who use a looser definition. That's it. It has no actual purpose except to be pedantic and irritating.
The rarity of the card is only relevant in terms of how frequently it appears in booster packs; it has absolutely nothing to do with what the card does in an actual game of Magic.
3G
Creature — Spider
2/4
Reach
3B: Graverobber Spider gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. Activate this ability only once each turn.
A strictly better card than Giant Spider, which I believe is the first strictly better giant spider since it was first printed in Alpha.
Seems pretty great in the limited G/B graveyard strategy.
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Word to the wise: without references in support of the claims on MTGS or any wiki, take it with a grain of salt.
That having been said,
Lol.
Fine card. Doesn't even really need the synergy with cards that pack your graveyard. No immediately apparent downside.
No, but that doesn't really matter, for the same reason that talking about a card being strictly worse than Ancestral Recall doesn't matter; why compare to a card that you can't play? If you're talking about pauper, why make any comparison or acknowledge the existence of any card that can't be played in that format? It's pointless.
Very literal definitions of "strictly better" annoy me, because they are useless. If you take the most literal definition of the term, it is only ever used to correct people who use a looser definition. That's it. It has no actual purpose except to be pedantic and irritating.
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Rarity comes into play in limited as well.
Yes, but giant spider and graverobber spider aren't in the same limited format.
The rarity of the card is only relevant in terms of how frequently it appears in booster packs; it has absolutely nothing to do with what the card does in an actual game of Magic.
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Linking Thun cos, you know... He's a mono-green commander. Also: A troll ^^