Spitting Spider
Creature — Spider
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Sacrifice a land: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature with flying.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Eighth Edition
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #18851
Spitting Spider lets you pay one green mana to deal 1 damage to a flying creature — repeatedly, as a static ability — which answers evasive threats other green decks simply can't touch. The cost is a 2/4 body for five mana, which is unambiguously bad rate; this sees play almost exclusively in niche shells like Archelos, Lagoon Mystic where tapping it down doesn't matter.
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 |
Spitting Spider is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees competitive play in exactly none of them. In Commander it occupies a narrow role: green decks that lack reliable answers to flying creatures and don't mind a slow, mana-intensive blocker — primarily casual or themed builds where the flavor or creature type matters. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage have no interest in a five-mana 2/4 with a reactive tap ability when better flying hate exists at a fraction of the cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Archelos, Lagoon MysticMystic SanctuarySplendid ReclamationSpitting SpiderAesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite damage to some creatures; Near-infinite landfall triggers; Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifegain triggers; Near-infinitely large creature until end of turn; Near-infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce; Near-infinite storm count
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Archelos, Lagoon MysticMystic SanctuarySplendid ReclamationSpitting SpiderTatyova, Benthic Druid
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite damage to some creatures; Near-infinite landfall triggers; Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifegain triggers; Near-infinitely large creature until end of turn; Near-infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce; Near-infinite storm count
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Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Spitting Spider is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. That price is stable by default: there's no competitive pressure to spike it and no casual breakout commander waiting to absorb copies.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.