Shelob by user2237590

Format: Commander

Commander: Shelob, Child of Ungoliant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari Spider tribal and board control deck helmed by Shelob, Child of Ungoliant. The game plan revolves around accelerating mana in the early turns, deploying utility Spiders, and casting Shelob on turn 4 or 5. Once Shelob enters the battlefield, she grants all Spiders deathtouch and ward {2}. Equipping pingers like Thornbite Staff or Viridian Longbow, or casting fight and bite spells, turns every Spider into a repeatable assassin that destroys opposing creatures on contact. Whenever an opposing creature dealt damage by a Spider dies, Shelob captures it as a Food artifact token, copying all of its abilities and stealing opposing value engines. The deck locks down creature-based strategies, accumulates massive token advantage, and closes the game across turns 7 to 9 using heavy combat damage from Shelob, token animation via Halsin, Emerald Archdruid, or table-wide life drain through Ishkanah, Grafwidow and Rotwidow Pack.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All Is Dust
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arachnoid Adaptation
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Attercop
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bite Down
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Cosmic Hunger
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Recluse
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Glimpse of Nature
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grindstone
  • 1 Halsin, Emerald Archdruid
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Infectious Bite
  • 1 Ishkanah, Grafwidow
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Greenwidow
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Master's Rebuke
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mirkwood Spider
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Radioactive Spider
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rotwidow Pack
  • 1 Shelob's Ambush
  • 1 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant
  • 1 Silklash Spider
  • 1 Skyfisher Spider
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorcerer's Wand
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Subterranean Cavern
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Thornbite Staff
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vedalken Orrery
  • 1 Viridian Longbow
  • 1 Watcher in the Web
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor