Ishkanah, Grafwidow

Legendary Creature — Spider

Reach

Delirium — When this enters, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, create three 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach.

{6}{B}: Target opponent loses 1 life for each Spider you control.

Tokens

• Spider 1/2 G

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

TheVectornaut on Creepy Crawlies

4 months ago

You could consider adding a copy or two of Spider Spawning as a payoff when games go long and you've wiped your own board. The flashback means it's totally fine even if it gets milled by a Nyx Weaver or something. On the subject of self-mill, Broodspinner seems like a decent option that could fit in by itself or with a delirium package including cards like Ishkanah, Grafwidow, Grist, the Hunger Tide, The Swarmweaver, Twitching Doll, and maybe some Mulch/Grapple with the Past type effects. You'd probably want some fetches for that plan, even if only Evolving Wilds, and definitely at least one artifact.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Custom Card Design: Weaving Aurachnid

3 years ago

legendofa: That's right. It would propably feel right at home in a Precon, good catch. The general idea was to have a second copy of Arachnus Spinner with a broader set of cards it could find. Originally, I intended to just get any Aura into play, but that seemed too damn broken. Restricting it to MV3 felt too on the nose in regards to Arachnus Web. But giving the restriction of only giving enchantments to other opposing creatures felt just correct flavourwise. This is how it ended up like this. Oh, and it's an enchantment creature for Ishkanah, Grafwidow.

GodzSoldier on Australia:

3 years ago

I don't know why it doesn't say, but Ishkanah, Grafwidow is illegal. Soz.

GodzSoldier on

3 years ago

I love seeing a desire to play spiders, and I'd love to help, but there's no helping this horrible tribe haha. And that's coming from someone that only got into magic because of spiders like Ishkanah, Grafwidow. Good luck tho

FauxFaux on Card creation challenge

4 years ago

As much as I like Ishkanah, Grafwidow, she isn't all that good at the making of Spee-iders, and Thantis, the Warweaver is more of a chaos deck, so they are not TRULY Commander material. Thus...

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Alaka, Octofid of the Orchard {4}{BG}{BG}

Legendary Creature - Spider Horror

Deathtouch, Reach, Skulk

Whenever a creature you control dies, if its power was greater than its toughness, create a 1/2 Green Spider Creature Token with Reach and Skulk.

At the beginning of your endstep, put a +1/+0 counter on each creature you control.

"From eight of the shadowed boughs, eight small tines shall creep. Be mindful of your step, for each carries a deep, deep sleep."

3/4

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Aggro+creature creation. I wish I could do art, as I would just have it be a small spider on a tree trunk, doing a aggression pose to a wandering person.

Wild!

Coward_Token on Secret Lair: Street Fighter

4 years ago

IGN link

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My (EDH-centered) thoughts Show

Ryu: Maybe there's some potential untap-symbol shenanigsn here, but I'm not too excited. Though it's a boros card with "draw" in it, it's obviously not a boros card advantage commander. (Also, missed opportunity to do a Shoryuken ability with the {UNTAP} symbol)

Chun-Li: Eheheh. Anyway, note that there's no "without paying their mana cost" rider, and that as you're casting copies you're allowed to reuse your Instants each combat (and they're lost should Chun-Li die NO WAIT I'M BAD ). Thankfully, the only Instant extra turn spell available in Azorius is Nexus of Fate, and getting it into your graveyard isn't too easy.

Dhalsim: Reach tribal that rewards low power? Heh, Ishkanah, Grafwidow isn't to pleased to be excluded by that white pip. Azban spider commander when?

Honda: Oof, 6 mana? At least that 7 toughness is going to be put to work by his buttfighting. Hundred-Handed One feels mildly insulted.

Ken: This is quite a bit more interesting than Ryu, being a kinda weird spellslinging voltron commander in Boros. And hey, there's that Shoryuken, though without the symbol pun I wanted.

Zangief: The Zurgo Helmsmasher comparsion is obvious, though Zangief is less voltron friendly, both because of his different third ability and because of the lack of white. Anyway, you can obviously use things like Chandra's Ignition to nuke people's Artifacts, Enchantments, and Planewalkers every once in a while. Also, Berserk is fun here since Zangief won't die.

brandonplaysmagic on K & R's Arachnotopia!

4 years ago

So excited to see this deck! I had Ishkanah, Grafwidow for awhile before the announcement for Chatterfang, Squirrel General came out. I might make a few suggestions: Doom Weaver and Graverobber Spider with some sort of sac outlet is great. Also, Hatchery Spider did a lot of great work for me. Last spiders that I loved are Sporeweb Weaver, Watcher in the Web and Sweet-Gum Recluse.

I’ve found that cards like Meren of Clan Nel Toth and Syr Konrad, the Grim are particularly powerful with the spider tribe and what they’re doing. You can get extra value out of them by throwing in a Maskwood Nexus and making them all spiders themselves.

Lastly, I’d look at your ramp for this. Three Visits or Nature's Lore or Skyshroud Claim. Deathcap Cultivator and Elves of Deep Shadow are nice dorks. She’s a little pricey, but if you can get Liliana of the Dark Realms you’ve got fabulous creatures to protect her.

Sorry, that was a lot, but it love the deck and had a lot of peoples say spiders aren’t that good. Hope you have fun with it!

rdean14 on Card creation challenge

4 years ago

Looking at the wiki page for it, I think it has real grounds to be Sultai, so here's a Sultai Gitrog:

The Gitrog of Lake Zhava

Legendary Creature - Frog Horror

Ward - Sacrifice a land.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep they reveal a card from their hand. If it is a land, put onto the battlefield under your control, if a nonland card is revealed this way, you may cast it without paying its mana cost, if you don't cast it, that player discards it.

Whenever an opponent sacrifices a land, put it onto the battlefield under your control.

5/5

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I'd like to see another legend from a previous Innistrad set with exactly 1 card which could be around for Crimson Vow:

I think Geist of Saint Traft, Grimgrin, Corpse-Born, Ishkanah, Grafwidow, Ulrich of the Krallenhorde  ^Flip, and Withengar Unbound are the only others.

Everyone else either is either perma-dead or has been reprinted at least once. If you come up with another one, that'd be cool, though