‘Magic’ Weaves New Mechanics and Cards for Spider-Man Set

Less than a month out from Magic: The Gathering’s Spider-Man set, Wizards of the Coast has given it a full unveiling with reveals of more cards and gameplay mechanics for its crossover with Marvel’s webhead and friends.

Wizards previously revealed a selection of cards at San Diego Comic-Con back in July. Like those, this new selection sports some amazing art from the company’s internal artists and creatives who’ve previously drawn Spider-Man over the character’s decades-long history, which is on full display here, referencing classic events like the Clone Saga and Kraven’s Last Hunt to more recent turns like Venom becoming the King in Black and Peter and Miles as a dynamic duo in Insomniac’s game trilogy.

Gameplay-wise, the Web-slinging ability works as an alternative cost to spellcasting, and lets players play the listed cost instead of mana, and return a tapped creature they control back to their hand. (Can’t web-sling if you don’t have a creature to control!) Villain cards have a similar version of this with Mayhem, which lets players cast a card from their graveyard for an alternative cost if it was discarded that turn, and it doesn’t change when spellcasting.

Additionally, Spider-Man sets will include one of three different Soul Stone cards with its mana ability instantly available. The next ability lets players harness the Stone to trigger its Infinity ability at the start of their upkeeps. The other Infinity Stones aren’t mentioned in Wizards’ writeup, so they may appear in later crossover sets it’s doing with Marvel. But first, we’ve got the Spider-Man set, which is due to hit shelves on September 26.

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