After a short hiatus, the Magic: The Gathering Crashers and Climbers are back – and there are some decent drops on Spider-Man cards that you may have on your radar.
There are some fun synergies popping off, too, leading to climbs for cards that came out when I was 8 years old – a poignant reminder that, like death and taxes, Magic is forever.
Let’s get into it.
MTG Crashers This Week
Now that the Spider-Man set is here, a lot of the pre-launch pricing has settled down and that means you can grab some fantastic cards on the (relative) cheap.
Gwenom, Remorseless is down to just $13 now, and is a 4/4 with deathtouch and lifelink who can play card from the top of your library. The fun thing is that you pay for those cards with life instead of mana, hence why that lifelink keyword is handy.
Next up in Spidey’s baddies, Norman Osborn/Green Goblin is a 1/1 that can’t be blocked, triggering Connive and giving him the potential to climb in power. Pay the mana cost, and he turns into Green Goblin, able to cheapen spells from the graveyard that you discarded through Connive. He’s $15 now.
Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer we’ve already touched on, and he’s now $12 or so. I’m personally planning to pick him up once we get to around the $10 mark I think.
Next up, the meme-worthy Imposter Syndrome has levelled out at around $10. It lets you create a non-legendary copy of a creature that attacked.
Finally, if you wanted to build a five-color Spider-Verse deck, Cosmic Spider-Man is just $10 now. He’s got a ton of keywords that he transfers to other Spider Hero characters, and makes an ideal Commander for anyone looking to drop a ton of them into the same deck
MTG Climbers This Week
Number one on our climbers this week is Mortuary, a card that’s 27 years old and basically bounces creatures from your graveyard straight to the top of your library.
It’s simple enough, and it’s been a few dollars at most. Now, TCGPlayer has it climbing to around $30 thanks to the emergence of Gwenom, Remorseless, which can pay life to cast cards from the top of your library.
Next up, when is a Turtle Ninja not a Ninja Turtle? When it’s Taeko, the Patient Avalanche, of course. Nothing to do with the upcoming TMNT set, this card enters tapped and powers up as cards leave the battlefield without dying. It’s reached $15, having been around $5 just a week or two ago. Turtle power, indeed.
Next up, Attunement came out in 1998 and works very nicely for turning Norman Osborn into Green Goblin and causing chaos. Did the designers in 1998 ever anticipate that sentence? It’s unlikely, but the card is up to $11 right now.
Goryo’s Vengeance is a nice bit of graveyard recursion that gets you flinging a big nasty from the graveyard back for one last hurrah, all for just two mana. It’s up to $15.
Entangler is a very fun one. It pairs with Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer (more from him shortly), allowing him to block multiple creatures at once. That’s particularly useful given he ends up negating that damage and powering up with counters in return. After being under a dollar, Entangler is now reaching closer to $10.
Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He’s a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife’s dismay.
