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Spider-Gwen, Free Spirit

Legendary Creature — Spider Human Hero

Reach
Whenever Spider-Gwen becomes tapped, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
Through the Omenpaths
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#10436
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Spider-Gwen, Free Spirit card art
Spider-Gwen, Free Spirit generates a token whenever you draw your second card each turn, which pairs immediately with any commander that wants bodies on the board or card-draw density. The cost is real — she does nothing without a steady draw engine behind her — but in the right shell, like alongside Nadir Kraken or Miles Morales, she's a free token factory that compounds fast.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Miles Morales

32.8% of decks · synergy 0.32

Miles Morales triggers off multiple combat and draw conditions that naturally fuel Spider-Gwen, Free Spirit's second-draw clause, meaning the two run the same engine and reward the same deckbuilding decisions. In practice, Spider-Gwen shows up in nearly a third of Miles Morales lists precisely because their token and draw payoffs stack rather than compete.

02

Gwen Stacy

12.1% of decks · synergy 0.12

Gwen Stacy's built-in card draw makes hitting Spider-Gwen, Free Spirit's second-draw threshold trivially easy, turning every activation into a free body. The thematic overlap is a bonus; the mechanical overlap is the reason she slots in.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Spider-Gwen, Free Spirit earns her keep — the 99-card format gives you the density of draw spells and card-advantage commanders needed to reliably hit that second-draw trigger every turn. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, the token payoff is too slow and too conditional for competitive shells that already have better options at two and three mana. Legacy and Vintage have the cantrip density to make the trigger fire constantly, but there's no competitive archetype hunting for this effect when you can just win on the stack. Pauper is the one constructed format where token-generation engines get serious play, but Spider-Gwen's rarity limits that conversation. Stay in Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1 decks
Nadir KrakenSpider-Gwen, Free SpiritIntruder Alarm

Nadir KrakenSpider-Gwen, Free SpiritIntruder Alarm

Infinite self-discard triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite rummaging; Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite untap of all creatures

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Spider-Gwen, Free Spirit isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market price before picking up copies. As a card with clear synergy in popular Spider-Man commanders, demand tends to track those deck's popularity — buy accordingly.

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