Obelisk Spider
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}{G}
- Type
- Creature — Spider
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 4
- Set
- The List #HOU-141 (uncommon)
- Price
- $3.28 USD
Reach
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.
Whenever you put one or more -1/-1 counters on a creature, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Obelisk Spider has 3 printings, first in Hour of Devastation (2017). EDHREC ranks it #4,806 among Commander cards. It appears most in Auntie Ool, Cursewretch decks (12,845 on EDHREC). It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Obelisk Spider most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Auntie Ool, Cursewretch: 12,845 decks
- Shelob, Child of Ungoliant: 6,667 decks
- Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons: 5,001 decks
- Volrath, the Shapestealer: 1,048 decks
- Ishkanah, Grafwidow: 329 decks
- Vhati il-Dal: 163 decks
- Spinnerette, Arachnobat: 13 decks
- Hapatra, the Desert Fang: 10 decks
Often played with Obelisk Spider
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If a creature with wither or infect deals damage to a creature, the controller of the creature with wither or infect puts that many -1/-1 counters on the second creature.
- : If Obelisk Spider deals combat damage to a creature at the same time Obelisk Spider is dealt lethal damage, its first triggered ability will put a -1/-1 counter on the other creature. However, because Obelisk Spider has left the battlefield before that ability resolves, its last ability won’t trigger.
- : If you put one or more -1/-1 counter on each of multiple creatures at the same time, Obelisk Spider’s last ability triggers once for each of those creatures.
- : In a Two-Headed Giant game, Obelisk Spider’s last ability causes the opposing team to lose 2 life and you gain 1 life.
- : If Obelisk Spider deals combat damage to a creature but that creature isn’t on the battlefield as Obelisk Spider’s first triggered ability resolves, most likely because Obelisk Spider killed that creature already, that ability won’t put a -1/-1 counter on it.
- : Because damage remains marked on a creature until it’s removed as the turn ends, the counter Obelisk Spider’s first triggered ability puts on a creature may cause previously marked damage to become lethal.
- : Obelisk Spider’s first triggered ability puts only one -1/-1 counter on the creature, no matter how much combat damage it dealt.