Spider Sanctum

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Fight Spider

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Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Arena
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Haunted Mire
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Slitherbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 5x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Swarmyard
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x The Black Gate
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Underground Mortuary
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x War Room
• 1x Witch's Clinic
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Woodland Chasm

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Lolth, Spider Queen

Instant (17)

• 1x Arachnogenesis
• 1x Archdruid's Charm
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Cosmic Hunger
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Inscription of Abundance
• 1x Legolas's Quick Reflexes
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Prizefight
• 1x Ram Through
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Stinging Study
• 1x Windswift Slice
• 1x You Look Upon the Tarrasque

Artifact (12)

• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mask of Griselbrand
• 1x Mithril Coat
• 1x Pathway Arrows
• 1x Shadowspear *list*
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x The One Ring
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Viridian Longbow
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Curse of Clinging Webs
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Sylvan Library

Commander (1)

Sorcery (17)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Command the Dreadhorde
• 1x Contest of Claws
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Into the North
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Revenge of the Hunted
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Roar of Challenge
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Creature (12)

• 1x Arasta of the Endless Web
• 1x Chainweb Aracnir
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Doom Weaver
• 1x Izoni, Center of the Web
• 1x Karn, Silver Golem
• 1x Roaming Throne
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Shelob, Dread Weaver
• 1x Silklash Spider
• 1x Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1x Watcher in the Web

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This deck is built to choose violence. First, we play tons of ramp spells to get to Shelob as soon as possible; she is the most important card to have in play at all times. Shelob will usually stick around for a while after playing her, thanks to ward. However, this won't stop people from taking her out as soon as they can. Thankfully, We also play a few ramp spells that can help us find Swarmyard, which bolsters Shelob's survivability. Once she's in play, all ya gotta do is fight. Fight everything that is threatening the table or everything that you want to steal for yourself. Try to prioritize targeting down cards that have abilities you can take advantage of. To combo with creatures that have attacking abilities, we play 2 versions of Karn. Turning our food tokens into creatures is incredibly useful, and gives Shelob's abilities some further depth.

There are also some extra spider-token making cards to help spread out a bit; making your turns safer with resilient blockers (thanks to Shelob's ability, they become hard to deal with and reliable blockers!). That being said, don't fall into the trap of playing too many spider creature cards in your deck. Spider Tribal is, unfortunately, awful. We do play what I believe are the best 5 spiders in the game. Each of the spiders in this deck are great alongside Shelob, and have amazing utility effects. Outside of those 5, every other spider can be underwhelming. An honorable spider mention is Skyfisher Spider, but with our extremely low creature count, I found him to be not very profitable.

I ended up dropping the Devoted Druid infinite combo piece from the deck. I have so often gone for the infinite play, and done nothing with it. Having unlimited mana is super fun, but when it's unsearchable and doesn't help out the general strategy, is it really worth playing? If you find some good ways to make that card naturally flow into the deck, leave a comment! I'd love to hear some thoughts!

Overall, this deck is really fun to play. You have an actual ton of interaction with this deck, and can be pretty threatening all game simply by stealing your opponent's cards. Also, The Shire is a bad card in this deck. Do not play it.

Date added	10 months
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.14
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Emblem Lolth, Spider Queen, Food, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Spider 1/2 G, Spider 2/1 B, Spider 2/1 BG, Treasure
Folders	Deck Inspiration, EDH, Cool Decks From Online, Commander decks, Pauper Commander, My Decks, edh