
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant Commander Deck
This is a Spider tribal deck built around Shelob. She gives every other Spider deathtouch and ward 2, which makes a wide board of reach bodies into lethal blockers and attackers. Fight and "deals damage equal to its power" spells then use those deathtouch Spiders as removal, and any creature a Spider damaged that dies comes back as a Food copy under the player's control. The copies keep their abilities, so stolen ETB and static effects pile up while Food feeds Greta, Night of the Sweets' Revenge and incidental lifegain. How it wins: It builds a wide army of deathtouch Spiders and Spider tokens that dominates combat, then closes through attacks, Fynn's poison counters, or drain effects that scale with Spider count. Key roles: - Spider army and token makers: Cheap and mid-sized reach Spiders and token producers go wide, then replace themselves on death so the board keeps sticking around under Shelob's deathtouch and ward. (Twin-Silk Spider, Penumbra Spider, Spider Spawning) - Deathtouch bite and fight removal: One-sided damage and fight spells pointed through any deathtouch Spider kill creatures of any size, and every kill triggers Shelob's Food copies. (Tail Swipe, Bite Down, Stew the Coneys) - Food copy engine: Creatures killed after Spider damage, or swept up from graveyards, return as Food artifacts carrying their abilities. Mass removal adds value on top of that. (Shelob, Child of Ungoliant, Supper for Spiders, Taste of Death) - Food payoffs: The Food stream turns into counters, cards, mana and a team-wide overrun. (Greta, Sweettooth Scourge, Night of the Sweets' Revenge, Shelob's Ambush) - Poison and Spider drain finishers: Deathtouch Spiders connecting with players stack poison, while Spider-count drains end stalled games. (Fynn, the Fangbearer, Rotwidow Pack, Ishkanah, Grafwidow) - Anti-flyer reach suite: Reach blockers and flying-hate cover the usual tribal weakness to evasive threats. (Silklash Spider, Stingerfling Spider, Spider Food)
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant decklist
- Arcane Signet
- Commander's Sphere
- Golgari Signet
- Moss Diamond
- Sol Ring
- Command Tower
- Evolving Wilds
- 17× Forest
- Golgari Rot Farm
- Jungle Hollow
- Mirkwood
- 12× Swamp
- Tainted Wood
- Temple of Malady
- Twilight Mire
- Woodland Cemetery
- Arasta of the Endless Web
- Brood Weaver
- Canyon Crawler
- Chainweb Aracnir
- Deadly Recluse
- Drider
- Fynn, the Fangbearer
- Glint Weaver
- Greta, Sweettooth Scourge
- Hitchclaw Recluse
- Hoarding Recluse
- Ishkanah, Grafwidow
- Llanowar Greenwidow
- Mirkwood Spider
- Nyx Weaver
- Obelisk Spider
- Penumbra Spider
- Rotwidow Pack
- Sentinel Spider
- Shelob, Dread Weaver
- Silklash Spider
- Skyfisher Spider
- Snarespinner
- Spinner of Souls
- Stingerfling Spider
- Sweet-Gum Recluse
- Twin-Silk Spider
- Twitching Doll
- Arachnus Web
- Deathreap Ritual
- Fertile Ground
- Lure
- Night of the Sweets' Revenge
- Arachnogenesis
- Bite Down
- Cosmic Hunger
- Grow Extra Arms
- Putrefy
- Return to Nature
- Shelob's Ambush
- Stew the Coneys
- Supper for Spiders
- Tail Swipe
- Tainted Treats
- Bushwhack
- Cultivate
- Earth Rumble
- Harmonize
- Kodama's Reach
- Prey Upon
- Rampant Growth
- Savage Swipe
- Sign in Blood
- Spider Food
- Spider Spawning
- Taste of Death