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Marvel's Spider-Man

 

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MaRo's Marvel's Spider-Man Teaser

Despite previous issues with the teaser for Final Fantasy, Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser for Marvel's Spider-Man with the following hints to the contents of the main set.

First up, here are some things you can expect:

• A new artifact Food — Bagel and Schmear
• "Mind swap" as flavor words — Superior Spider-Man
• A new card with "Rocket-Powered" in its name — Rocket-Powered Goblin Glider
• Some new counters: ingenuity and film — Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor (ingenuity) & Peter Parker's Camera (film)
• A five-color Spider-Man — Cosmic Spider-Man
• A reanimation spell that can reanimate a number of creatures never used before — Behold the Sinister Six! (Six)
• A card that keeps the "legend rule" from applying to Spiders — Spider-Verse
• A card that lets you exchange life with another player — Mister Negative
• A character, other than Miles, from the Ultimate Universe — Ultimate Green Goblin
• A famous Spider-Man meme is made into a card — Impostor Syndrome (referencing "Pointing Spider-Man")

Here are snippets of rules text you’ll see:

• "Exile these tokens when Mysterio leaves the battlefield." — Mysterio, Master of Illusion
• "choose a card type other than creature." — Arachne, Psionic Weaver
• "Look at the top nine cards of target opponent's library," — Black Cat, Cunning Thief
• "You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs." — Alien Symbiosis
• "Whenever a creature you control with menace attacks, create a Treasure token." — J. Jonah Jameson
• "You don't lose unspent red mana as steps and phases end." — Electro, Assaulting Battery
• "If you do, draw X cards, then you may put a permanent card with mana value X or less from your hand onto the battlefield." — Venom, Lethal Protector
• "loses all abilities and becomes a green Lizard" — Lizard, Connors's Curse
• "Until your next turn, he becomes a land and gains ': Add .'" — Hydro-Man, Fluid Felon
• "Whenever you attack with two or more Spiders," — Spinneret and Spiderling

Here are some creature type lines from the set:

• Legendary Creature — Symbiote Spider Hero — Gwenom, Remorseless; Symbiote Spider-Man
• Legendary Creature — Human Mercenary Hero — Silver Sable, Mercenary Leader
• Legendary Creature — Human Detective Hero — Wraith, Vicious Vigilante
• Legendary Creature — Mutant Advisor — Madame Web, Clairvoyant
• Legendary Creature — Sand Elemental Villain — Sandman, Shifting Scoundrel
• Legendary Creature — Human Shapeshifter Villain — Chameleon, Master of Disguise
• Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Villain — Kraven the Hunter; Kraven, Proud Predator
• Legendary Creature — Vampire Scientist Villain — Morbius the Living Vampire
• Legendary Creature — Insect Villain — Swarm, Being of Bees
• Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot Villain — Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel

Finally, here are some names in the set:

• Parker Luck — Enchantment
• Pumpkin Bombardment — Sorcery
• Radioactive Spider — Creature — Spider
• Rent Is Due — Enchantment
• Spider-Verse — Enchantment
• Spiders-Man, Heroic Horde — Legendary Creature — Spider Hero
• Wall Crawl — Enchantment
• Web of Life and Destiny — Enchantment
• Web Shooters — Artifact — Equipment
• With Great Power... — Enchantment — Aura

Miscellaneous

Set

• Despite his critical importance to the origin and character of Spider-Man, Uncle Ben Parker is not depicted on any cards, nor is his iconic quote ("With great power, there must also come great responsibility") attributed to him on With Great Power.... However, his tombstone is depicted on the bonus sheet printing of Rest in Peace.
  • Other notable omissions from the set include major villains Kingpin and Knull.
• No iteration of the Green Goblin is actually green.
• Unusually, some legendary creature cards in the set (e.g. Rhino, Barreling Brute) have flavor text formatted as a quote which is attributed to the character themself. Normally, when a legendary creature card has a quote as flavor text, it goes unattributed (e.g. Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite). This is true even within Marvel's Spider-Man itself (e.g. Spider-Man, Web-Slinger). The reason for this is unknown.
• When quoting superheroes and supervillains in flavor text, the set mostly follows the pattern set in the Secret Lair Marvel superdrop of "[code name], [secret identity]". However, on some cards (e.g. Electro's Bolt), this pattern is ignored. The reason for this is unknown.

Cards

• The designs of Doctor Octopus, Master Planner, Doc Ock, Evil Inventor and Grasping Tentacles all play on the fact that Doc Ock has eight limbs (four mechanical tentacles, his two regular arms and his two legs).
• Four of the five mythic transforming DFCs require a shard mana cost to access the back side. Of these, Peter Parker and Miles Morales are the primary colors of their shard, while the other two are one of the side colors. Gwen Stacy breaks this pattern, as its back side has a wedge mana cost and it is in the primary color of that wedge.
• The Hero and Villain types are widely used across the set to indicate whether a given character fights on the side of good or evil. However, Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote have acted as both a hero and a villain in the past. Their card does not attempt to resolve this apparent contradiction, with both Eddie Brock and Venom, Lethal Protector simply being Hero Villains.
• Island (Marvel's Spider-Man, #195) depicts Manhattan Bridge, looking south towards Manhattan on Long Island.
• Every card depicting Flash Thompson has flash, even the bonus sheet printing of Opposition Agent, which depicts him as Agent Venom.
• The artwork of Secret Identity pays homage to the original Unmask artwork. Both are illustrated by rk post.
• Marvel cards not only credit the artist, but the colorist and the inker of the comic when applicable. Rite of Replication credits the most artists out of any Magic card, with 5 people: the penciler, the colorist, and 3 inkers.