Peter Parker // Amazing Spider-Man
Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Hero // Legendary Creature — Spider Human Hero
When Peter Parker enters, create a 2/1 green Spider creature token with reach.
: Transform Peter Parker. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GUW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Media and Collaboration Promos
- Price
- $17.14
- EDHREC rank
- #8392
Peter Parker // Amazing Spider-Man lands as a recursive threat and token engine in one card — the front face makes a creature every combat, the back face brings itself back from the graveyard for a single black mana. The Nim Deathmantle comparison is instructive: where that card needs an external death trigger, Amazing Spider-Man is self-contained recursion stapled to ongoing board presence.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Peter Parker // Amazing Spider-Man does its best work — the longer game rewards both the token generation and the cheap recursion, and the modal double-face structure means you're never dead-drawing a situational piece. In constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer it's legal but competes against more efficient threats that close games faster than a slow-accumulating token engine. Standard could find room for it in midrange shells that want recursive bodies, though the ceiling is lower without the political and multiplayer math that Commander provides.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Nim DeathmantleAshnod's AltarPeter Parker // Amazing Spider-Man
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers
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Peter Parker // Amazing Spider-ManSelvala, Heart of the WildsAura of Dominion
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite storm count
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Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Peter Parker // Amazing Spider-Man is hard to replicate cleanly because the self-recursive back face is the unusual part — most cheaper token engines like Bitterblossom or Ophiomancer don't come back from the graveyard on their own. If you're cutting for budget, a Doomed Dissenter effect paired with a separate recursion piece gets you partway there, but you're paying two card slots for what Amazing Spider-Man does in one.
Price Context
Current price
$17.14 mid tier
At $17.14, Peter Parker // Amazing Spider-Man sits in mid-tier pricing — expensive enough to be a deliberate inclusion, not so expensive it's a barrier for most Commander players. As a Marvel Universes Beyond card with casual and competitive demand, the price reflects genuine play interest rather than hype, which suggests reasonable stability.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.