Spiders · Commander / EDH

Spider Commander Decks

Two thirds of all spiders have reach, which makes them the best defensive tribe in the format and is also the problem — a wall of blockers does not close a game. The good lists pair them with a payoff for going wide.

Ready-built list

Spider Defense — Wall Up, Then Swing

Stall the board with reach and deathtouch spiders, drain and control opponents with Shelob's fight triggers and token generation, then finish the game with mass pump effects.

100 cards$98.30 totallegality-checked

See the full decklist →

Commanders that care about spiders

Legendary spiders whose rules text actually names the creature type — these reward building around the tribe, rather than just belonging to it. Ordered by current market price, which is the closest thing to a popularity signal we can honestly compute.

Art by Zoltan Boros

Cosmic Spider-Man

Legendary Creature — Spider Human Hero

WUBRG$3.37

Build with AI →

Art by L.A. Draws

Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-Man

Legendary Creature — Human Citizen Hero // Legendary Creature — Spider Human Hero

1G$3.25

Build with AI →

Art by Carlos Dattoli

Superior Spider-Man

Legendary Creature — Spider Human Hero

2UB$2.39

Build with AI →

Art by Thanh Tuấn

Peter Parker // Amazing Spider-Man

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Hero // Legendary Creature — Spider Human Hero

1W$2.06

Build with AI →

Art by Lorenzo Mastroianni

Shelob, Child of Ungoliant

Legendary Creature — Spider Demon

4BG$1.66

Build with AI →

Art by Christine Choi

Ishkanah, Grafwidow

Legendary Creature — Spider

4G$1.48

Build with AI →

Art by Forrest Imel

Spider-Punk

Legendary Creature — Spider Human Hero

1R$1.20

Build with AI →

Art by Filipe Pagliuso

Spider-Ham, Peter Porker

Legendary Creature — Spider Boar Hero

1G$0.38

Build with AI →

Art by Javier Charro

Scarlet Spider, Ben Reilly

Legendary Creature — Spider Human Hero

1RG$0.37

Build with AI →

The spider support package

Cards that are not spiders themselves but name them in their rules text — the lords, anthems, tutors and payoffs that turn a pile of creatures into a deck. 27 of them are legal in Commander.

Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex

2G

Legendary Creature — Pest // Sorcery

$5.67Buy on Mana Pool

Lolth, Spider Queen

3BB

Legendary Planeswalker — Lolth

$5.21Buy on Mana Pool

Swarmyard Massacre

3BB

Sorcery

$4.89Buy on Mana Pool

Swarmyard

Land

$4.80Buy on Mana Pool

Arachnogenesis

2G

Instant

$1.91Buy on Mana Pool

Curse of Clinging Webs

2G

Enchantment — Aura Curse

$1.21Buy on Mana Pool

Spider-Verse

3RR

Enchantment

$0.84Buy on Mana Pool

Hidden Spider

G

Enchantment

$0.35Buy on Mana Pool

The Swarmweaver

2BG

Legendary Artifact Creature — Scarecrow

$0.33Buy on Mana Pool

Origin of Spider-Man

1W

Enchantment — Saga

$0.33Buy on Mana Pool

Where spiders live

Color identity of every legal spider in the format. This is what decides your commander's colors before you pick a single card.

Under a dollar

Playable spiders currently under $1 — the cheap end of the pool, priced from the least expensive real printing.

Dragonlair Spider

2RRGG

Creature — Spider

$0.47Buy on Mana Pool

Spinner of Souls

2G

Creature — Spider Spirit

$0.43Buy on Mana Pool

Sporeweb Weaver

2G

Creature — Spider

$0.41Buy on Mana Pool

Sweet-Gum Recluse

4GG

Creature — Spider

$0.41Buy on Mana Pool

Radioactive Spider

G

Creature — Spider

$0.39Buy on Mana Pool

Silklash Spider

3GG

Creature — Spider

$0.36Buy on Mana Pool

Hatchery Spider

5GG

Creature — Spider

$0.35Buy on Mana Pool

Juvenile Gloomwidow

GG

Creature — Spider

$0.35Buy on Mana Pool

Llanowar Greenwidow

2G

Creature — Spider

$0.34Buy on Mana Pool

Ancient Spider

2GW

Creature — Spider

$0.33Buy on Mana Pool

Copper Longlegs

1G

Creature — Phyrexian Spider

$0.32Buy on Mana Pool

Rotwidow Pack

2BG

Creature — Spider

$0.32Buy on Mana Pool

Other themes