Spiders by tugboat

Format: Commander

Commander: Shelob, Child of Ungoliant

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

An aggressive-midrange Spider tribal deck built around Shelob, Child of Ungoliant. The primary plan is to ramp into Shelob, use her deathtouch, reach, and ward to dominate combat, then overwhelm the table with Spider tokens and a single Overwhelming Stampede alpha strike. Secondary paths are Ishkanah's and Rotwidow Pack's life-drain, plus a Shelob commander-damage race. Shelob's most important role is turning every creature that dies to Spider damage into Food-copy artifacts, while granting the whole tribe deathtouch and ward. There is no hidden commander; both faces are the same creature. The deck wins through board presence rather than a compact combo, so its speed depends on hitting six mana and then assembling enough Spiders for a lethal swing.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acid Web Spider
  • 1 Arachnus Spinner
  • 1 Arachnus Web
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aveline de Grandpré
  • 1 Blightwidow
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brood Weaver
  • 1 Bushwhack
  • 1 Canopy Spider
  • 1 Chainweb Aracnir
  • 1 Changeling Wayfinder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosmic Hunger
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curse of Clinging Webs
  • 1 Deadly Recluse
  • 1 Deathreap Ritual
  • 1 Drider
  • 1 Eaten by Spiders
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Explosive Vegetation
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Glint Weaver
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Graverobber Spider
  • 1 Grow Extra Arms
  • 1 Hitchclaw Recluse
  • 1 Ishkanah, Grafwidow
  • 1 Izoni, Center of the Web
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Migration Path
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Spider
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Netcaster Spider
  • 1 Night of the Sweets' Revenge
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Penumbra Spider
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Prey Upon
  • 1 Prizefight
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Roar of Challenge
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rotwidow Pack
  • 1 Sentinel Spider
  • 1 Shelob's Ambush
  • 1 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant
  • 1 Silklash Spider
  • 1 Skyfisher Spider
  • 1 Snarespinner
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider Food
  • 1 Spider Spawning
  • 1 Spider-Ham, Peter Porker
  • 1 Sporecap Spider
  • 1 Stingerfling Spider
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard Massacre
  • 1 Sweet-Gum Recluse
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 Treetop Snarespinner
  • 1 Twin-Silk Spider
  • 1 Wall Crawl
  • 1 Watcher in the Web
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 You Look Upon the Tarrasque