Obelisk Spider

Creature — Spider

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Whenever Obelisk Spider 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.

Discussion (50)

Podkomorka on Pauper EDH Deck Compendium

4 months ago

Decks added:

• Conclave Mentor
• Deadeye Plunderers
• Stun Sniper
• Graverobber Spider
• Stromkirk Captain
• Obsessive Stitcher
• Obelisk Spider
• Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor + Toggo, Goblin Weaponsmith
• Jade Mage
• Wirewood Hivemaster
• Vesperlark
• Nantuko Cultivator

Dr_Wurm on Golgari -1/-1 Counters

6 months ago

real_zarek Sorry I overlooked Obelisk Spider what are the other combos? I see some but not 4 more.

Pabs4444 on JLK's Hapatra | Extra Turns #04

9 months ago

Also, not having Obelisk Spider doesn't seem the best... And be carful not to accidentally kill your own creatures by accident through Doubling Season if you wanted it to live... Can't wait to see the deck in action!

Tylord2894 on What counts as "putting counters …

10 months ago

Yes, Obelisk Spider will trigger for each creature that you bring back during the resolution of Pyrrhic Revival. When an event occurs, anything that exists immediately after that event is checked to see if its triggered ability was triggered during that event. The Spider will see that you brought back some creatures and in doing so had to put a -1 counter on all of them. It will, therefore, trigger that many times (it will count itself since you had to put a -1 counter on it too).

Here is the important rule. It talks about exceptions, but none of them apply here.

603.10. Normally, objects that exist immediately after an event are checked to see if the event matched any trigger conditions, and continuous effects that exist at that time are used to determine what the trigger conditions are and what the objects involved in the event look like. However, some triggered abilities are exceptions to this rule; the game “looks back in time” to determine if those abilities trigger, using the existence of those abilities and the appearance of objects immediately prior to the event.

Hope this helps!!

Gidgetimer on What counts as "putting counters …

10 months ago

Obelisk Spider's second ability will trigger for each creature that enters under your control. Since no player is specified to place the counter on the creatures, each player will put the counters on their own creatures.

122.6a If an object enters the battlefield with counters on it, the effect causing the object to be given counters may specify which player puts those counters on it. If the effect doesn’t specify a player, the object’s controller puts those counters on it.

Eonaut on What counts as "putting counters …

10 months ago

I am curious as to whether Obelisk Spider's second ability will trigger during the resolution of Pyrrhic Revival.

5dollarMTG on $15 Counter Engine

10 months ago

Nice! It's also worth pointing out that you can also put together a $15 deck just focusing on negative counters. In addition to Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons, there's Obelisk Spider and Nest of Scarabs as payoffs, along with cards like Decimator Beetle, Skinrender, etc. I tried to put together a deck like that awhile back, but I could never get it down to $5.

skeletonkey8 on Toxic Relationship: Hapatra EDH [PRIMER]

11 months ago

So with the new land you have a new win con and im excited and wanted to share the combo with you. Maybe you already figured this out?

Nesting Grounds + Devoted Druid + Nest of Scarabs + Earthcraft + Obelisk Spider

In this combo you are using nesting grounds to move the counters off of devoted, the act of placing and then moving the counter nets you 2 creatures. Earthcraft then allows you to untap nesting. you can ether move the counters onto a random land or onto a snake or bug for infite death triggers too.