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Ishkanah, Broodmother
Legendary Creature — Spider
Reach Other Spiders you control get +1/+2. {1}{B/G}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Draft a card from Ishkanah, Broodmother's spellbook.
3 / 5
“Graveyard-fueled spider swarm queen with tutor ability.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Tokens, Sacrifice, Graveyard
Strategy
Ishkanah, Broodmother is your spider queen that wants to turn your graveyard into a resource. The core gameplan revolves around filling your graveyard early—through mill, discard outlets, and self-mill—then using Ishkanah's activated ability to convert those dead cards into powerful tutored spells from her spellbook. You're playing a midrange deck that ramps into threats while building graveyard synergies, giving you inevitability as the game goes longer.
The deck wins by going wide with spider tokens (many of which are created by Ishkanah's spellbook drafts), then attacking through with +1/+2 pumped creatures that can't be blocked by flying threats. You'll also leverage graveyard creatures and sacrifice outlets to generate value, turning your discard pile into a second hand. Ishkanah herself is a resilient 3/5 body with reach that holds the ground while your spiders climb in for damage.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip expensive tutors like Demonic Tutor; use green ramp like Cultivate and Kodama's Reach instead, and lean into budget spiders like Arachnid Swarm and Fabled Passage for mana fixing.
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