Giant Spider is back! with a growing vengeance!
It’s quite apparent this will be mostly relegated to Limited play. It’s a more aggressively costed Giant Spider(aka. the Core Set sole -Surviror)
He sadly never saw M13
It turns into a Giant Spider if you drop a 2-power or greater creature and just has the potential do block bigger and better creatures with flying after that.
Guildgates Assemble!
I don’t care to analyse the Standard possibilities for this card, just that it must be a blast to play with in a Casual deck. Play it with green for Gatecreeper Vine and maybe Urban Evolution for lots of laughs. Pinging your opponent has never been so ‘odd’.
“Yay! I found a home!”
I suppose if you really want to stretch it in Standard it can ping away a few planeswalkers, eventually. But don’t hold your breath.
Nothing to see here
A conditional tapper. Not too exciting. Best ‘trick’ is to play a Beckon Apparition on your opponent’s Beginning of Combat step to tap down one of his dudes.
Yawn!
Zombies blocking your way? Sucks to be you!
The quote is kinda funny. Another sacrifice outlet, but more for limited. A great way to hinder Boros decks and force them to play a removal on this wall or waste one of their guys on it. It can also allow you to make use of a creature that is already on its way to the graveyard by giving this deathtouch and daring your opponent to expend a creature.
I feel icky just touching the card
Yes, it’s bad. I would not consider packing it in my 40-card deck, even as a 22-23d card. If I got stuck with some multiples I MIGHT consider siding them in versus opponents that seem to get color/mana screwed. That’s a stretch even at that. if your opponent is playing black, you might end up helping them.
Ew!
Cute, but inefficient
Flavour is there. Lazav approves. I just don’t like it. You’re paying 5 for something that should have Cipher, but doesn’t.
Some grindy casual low budget mill decks will run it and have fun though.
I would hesitate to play it even in Draft and 100% not playing it in Sealed.
Having a bad ‘Birds’ flashback!
If there is one ‘Evolve’ creature that is expected to see Constructed play, this is it. It gets dropped on turn 1 and continues to deliver the beatdown as long as you can curve out. Dropping a second one on turn 2 followed by a 1 power creature like Delver of Secrets (for example) can be big. Next turn, flip Delver, play a 2 power guy and attack for 7 in the air!
Standard Delver ressurgence? Maybe …
I know it sounds a little sketchy, but trust me. You will see this across from you in a Standard event. Maybe even something like Red/Blue Weenie burn. Who knows?
Just like a Sweepstakes: many will enter, few will win.
Now go evolve your new Standard decks with Gatecrash!
Nice! Two abilities!
Yes, that was sarcasm! Obviously being a defender hurts it a lot and even if it wasn’t, it would never see constructed play. Ever!
Er…I mean : Get your playset today!
We’ve met before, no?
Yeah, I remember now …
Just kidding! It’s not exactly creature you would remember much unless you did some Mercadian Masques block limited events. It was even better back then since combat damage went on the stack and stuff.
You 100% want this in any red draft/sealed deck as it splashes well and doubles as a removal/potential win condition. If you are playing Red/White/Black, attack with Treasury Thrull and get this guy back to keep Blazing your opponent or his creatures. Not ‘blazingly fast’ though, more like ‘blazingly slow’ but it’s fine, we’re in a limited format.
He can obviously just chump a creature then tap, shoot and kill another one. Not bad at all for a little uncommon!
Not quite Falkenrath Aristocrat eh?
Nice something that looks like a vampire but isn’t. It’s definitely a great sacrifice outlet that can potentially become unblockable or dodge a removal by pushing someone in the way of it. (Love the quote) Stats are fine for the cost too. You can sacrifice a ‘enters’ the battlefield creature to it and use Treasury Thrull to get it back and repeat.
It does have a slim chance of seeing Standard play. I was thinking that since it’s a human it can fit into a deck featuring Ravenous Demon. Once you have nothing substantial to sacrifice to the demon, you can cast this guy and sac the demon and not fall victim to its disgusting drawback. Ouch!
Stranger things HAVE happened!
Brother Of Runes 