Spider Spawning
Sorcery
Create a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach for each creature card in your graveyard.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad Remastered
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #7476
Spider Spawning drops a 1/2 reach token for every creature in your graveyard — in any self-mill deck, that's a board of eight to twelve bodies for five mana. Shelob, Child of Ungoliant turns each of those tokens into a deathtouch threat, making Spider Spawning a finisher rather than a token spell.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant grants all Spiders deathtouch and makes them food-generators on combat damage, so Spider Spawning doesn't just flood the board — it builds an army of bodies that trade up against anything and generate value on attack.
Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
Sidisi, Brood Tyrant mills aggressively and rewards a stocked graveyard, which is exactly the condition Spider Spawning needs to be worth casting — landing it with ten creatures in the bin for five mana is a realistic turn-five outcome in this shell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Spider Spawning is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games and graveyard-centric strategies give it the setup time it needs to pay off. In competitive formats like Legacy and Vintage where it's technically legal, it's never played; five mana for tokens doesn't compete with the speed of those environments. Commander is where Spider Spawning shines, specifically in self-mill commanders like Shelob, Child of Ungoliant and Sidisi, Brood Tyrant that routinely stock the graveyard by mid-game.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Spider Spawning is deep bulk — pick it up in any common box or as a throw-in. There's no price pressure here; supply is plentiful and demand is narrow enough that it stays in the floor tier indefinitely.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.