Obelisk Spider
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
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.
Combos with Obelisk Spider
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Channeler Initiate Sinking Feeling Infinite
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons Yawgmoth, Thran Physician Infinite
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Near-infinite card draw
- Near-infinite draw triggers
- Destroy all creatures opponents control
- Destroy each creature that enters the battlefield under an opponent's control
- Infinite -1/-1 counters
- Lock
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2017-04-18
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.
- 2017-07-14
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.
- 2017-07-14
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.
- 2017-07-14
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Obelisk Spider’s last ability causes the opposing team to lose 2 life and you gain 1 life.
- 2017-07-14
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.
- 2017-07-14
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.
- 2017-07-14
Obelisk Spider’s first triggered ability puts only one -1/-1 counter on the creature, no matter how much combat damage it dealt.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Obelisk Spider, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shelob, Child of Ungoliant | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Golgari 1 deck
Every version of Obelisk Spider
2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
The List
- Normal
- $4.82
Hour of Devastation
- Normal
- $3.43
- Foil
- $17.45
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Obelisk Spider — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
