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Symbiote Spider-Man
Legendary Creature — Symbiote Spider Hero
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that many cards from the top of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Find New Host — {2}{U/B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains this card's other abilities. Activate only as a sorcery.
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“Evasive mill-into-hand engine that copies itself onto your team”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Tokens, Graveyard, Reanimator
Strategy
Symbiote Spider-Man is a evasive creature that turns combat damage into card advantage. Every time he connects, you're essentially tutoring cards to your hand while filling your graveyard—a perfect setup for a self-mill or graveyard-focused strategy. His low cost and decent toughness make him a consistent threat that dodges most early removal.
The real magic happens with his Find New Host ability. You can exile him from the graveyard to pump another creature and grant it the same combat-damage trigger, creating a scaling engine where you're spreading your evasion and card draw across your board. This works beautifully with tokens, reanimation targets, or creatures that already pressure opponents. You win by chipping away with damage while refueling your hand and hand-filling your graveyard for reanimation payoffs.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey dual lands—basic Swamps and Islands work fine early. Swap Snapcaster Mage for Murktide or even budget clones like Phantasmal Image.
Most-Played Cards
Superior Spider-Man
Wonder
Stitch Together
Alien Symbiosis
Reanimate
Spider-Man Noir
Victimize
Dread Return
Risky Research
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Aqueous Form
Animate Dead
Inclusion = % of Symbiote Spider-Man decks running this card. +lift = percentage-point boost over the format average.
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