Spider-Man, Brooklyn Visionary is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Web-slinging(You may cast this spell for
Complete guide
Spider-Man, Brooklyn Visionary is a powerful Hero capable of swinging onto the battlefield earlier than expected to secure your resources. By utilizing his unique Web-slinging ability, you can accelerate your mana base while rescuing your own creatures from the board. This legendary creature ensures your land count grows every time he makes his grand entrance.
Understanding Web-slinging
Web-slinging is an alternative cost that allows you to cast Spider-Man, Brooklyn Visionary for only {2}{G} instead of his usual {4}{G}. To pay this alternative cost, you must also return a tapped creature you control to its owner's hand as part of the casting process. Note that you cannot combine Web-slinging with other alternative costs, such as casting a spell 'without paying its mana cost,' but you must still pay any mandatory additional costs like those from Commander tax.
Resolution Step-by-Step
When you cast Spider-Man using Web-slinging, you first move the spell to the stack and determine the cost. You choose to pay the alternative {2}{G} cost and select a creature you control to return. If that creature is not already tapped, you cannot return it unless you tap it for mana or another effect during the cost-payment step. Once the cost is paid and Spider-Man is successfully cast, he will eventually resolve and enter the battlefield, triggering his ability to search for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped.
Common Mistakes
A frequent error is trying to use Web-slinging at instant speed. Unless another effect gives Spider-Man flash, you must still follow normal timing rules for creature spells. Additionally, players often forget that the creature must be tapped to be returned; you cannot return an untapped creature to pay for Web-slinging unless you have a way to tap it while paying for the spell.
When to Play Him
Spider-Man is most effective when you have creatures with powerful 'enters' abilities that you want to reuse. By returning a creature to your hand to pay the Web-slinging cost, you protect that creature from removal or set yourself up to gain its benefits again on a future turn. He is also a great tool for recovering from mana screw, as he guaranteed a land drop upon arrival.
Interaction examples
Solemn SimulacrumIf you have Solemn Simulacrum on the battlefield and it is tapped (perhaps from attacking), you can cast Spider-Man, Brooklyn Visionary for his Web-slinging cost. You return the Simulacrum to your hand, paying only {2}{G}. When Spider-Man enters, you get a land. On your next turn, you can recast Solemn Simulacrum to get a second land, effectively doubling your ramp efficiency.
Roaming ThroneWith Roaming Throne on the battlefield naming 'Spider' or 'Hero', your Spider-Man, Brooklyn Visionary becomes twice as effective. When Spider-Man enters the battlefield, Roaming Throne causes his land-searching ability to trigger an additional time. You will search your library for two basic land cards and put them both onto the battlefield tapped.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Spider-Man, Brooklyn Visionary
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Web-slinging represents an alternative cost. If another effect allows you to play a card for a different alternative cost, including "without paying its mana cost," you can't also choose to pay its web-slinging cost. If any additional costs from other sources are applied, you must pay those.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If any permanent has an ability that triggers when the permanent you return leaves the battlefield, that ability will be put on the stack after you finish casting the spell, and it will resolve before that spell.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
You must follow all normal timing rules when casting a spell with web-slinging. For creatures, that usually means you must cast it during a main phase of your turn while the stack is empty.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
The creature you return must be tapped at the time you pay costs, but doesn't necessarily need to be tapped before you start casting the spell. For example, if you tap a creature with a mana ability to pay part of the spell's web-slinging cost, you could also return that creature to your hand to pay the cost.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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