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Flash Thompson, Spider-Fan

Legendary Creature — Human Citizen

Flash
When Flash Thompson enters, choose one or both —
• Heckle — Tap target creature.
• Hero Worship — Untap target creature.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Through the Omenpaths
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#12759
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Flash Thompson, Spider-Fan card art
Flash Thompson, Spider-Fan lands as a recursive artifact-creature that keeps coming back from the graveyard, making it a persistent threat worth answering multiple times — the cost is a three-mana investment for an effect that rewards exactly the shells that want it most. Emry, Lurker of the Loch turns it into a loop machine, and Sisay, Weatherlight Captain fetches it directly off the activated ability, meaning the card earns its slot on entry rather than on hope.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain

Sisay, Weatherlight Captain

16.9% of decks · synergy 0.16

Sisay, Weatherlight Captain can tutor Flash Thompson, Spider-Fan directly onto the battlefield as a legendary artifact creature, slotting it seamlessly into a chain of legendary permanents and adding another piece to the board without spending a draw step.

02

Brigid, Clachan's Heart

17.0% of decks · synergy 0.16

Brigid, Clachan's Heart cares about legendary creatures and the artifacts that support them, and Flash Thompson, Spider-Fan's recursive nature means Brigid's pilot can rebuild after board wipes without losing tempo on the legendary synergy plan.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Flash Thompson, Spider-Fan earns its place in any deck that wants a persistent, fetchable legendary artifact creature — the graveyard recursion makes it resilient to the targeted removal that dominates the format. Competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Pioneer can theoretically run it, but the card's value is almost entirely about inevitability and synergy density rather than raw efficiency, so it rarely makes the cut over faster payoffs in those 60-card environments. Legacy and Vintage give it access to the most powerful recursive and legendary-matters shells, though the competition for those deck slots is steep. Standard-legal builds have the most room to experiment with Flash Thompson, Spider-Fan given the smaller card pool, where its combination of type lines and recursive upside stands out more clearly.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Flash Thompson, Spider-Fan isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the latest market rate. As a card with a specific legendary type and combo applications, price tends to track with format demand — if it's cheap when you look, it's worth picking up for any deck that can use it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.