Spider-Man, Web-Slinger 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, Web-Slinger swings onto the battlefield as a versatile Hero that rewards tactical positioning and resource management. By utilizing his unique Web-slinging ability, you can bypass his standard mana cost to deploy him early while protecting your other assets. Mastering this card requires understanding how to leverage alternative costs and ETB triggers for maximum value.
What it Does
Spider-Man, Web-Slinger features the Web-slinging keyword, which acts as an alternative cost for casting the spell. Instead of paying its standard mana cost of {2}{W}, you may choose to pay {W} and return a tapped creature you control to its owner's hand. This is a special way to cast the spell that follows all normal timing restrictions for a creature unless you have an effect that gives it flash.
How it Resolves Step by Step
When you choose to cast Spider-Man, Web-Slinger for its Web-slinging cost, you first move the card to the stack. You then choose to pay the alternative cost of {W}. As part of paying the total cost, you must return a tapped creature you control to its owner's hand. Note that the creature must be tapped at the moment you pay the costs. Once the costs are fully paid, the spell is officially cast. Any abilities that trigger when that creature leaves the battlefield are put onto the stack on top of Spider-Man, resolving before he enters the battlefield.
Common Mistakes
A common error is trying to combine Web-slinging with other alternative costs. You cannot use Web-slinging if you are casting the card 'without paying its mana cost' via another effect; you must choose one alternative cost or the other. Additionally, remember that returning the tapped creature is a cost, not an effect. If the spell is countered, the creature remains in your hand and is not returned to the battlefield.
When to Play It
Spider-Man is best played when you have creatures with powerful 'enters the battlefield' effects that have already attacked or used a tap ability. By returning them to your hand, you protect them from sorcery-speed removal and set yourself up to reuse their abilities on a future turn, all while developing a legendary Spider Human Hero for just one white mana.
Interaction examples
Solemn SimulacrumIf you attack with Solemn Simulacrum, it becomes a tapped creature. During your post-combat main phase, you can cast Spider-Man, Web-Slinger by paying {W} and returning the tapped Solemn Simulacrum to your hand. This allows you to cast the Golem again later to search for another basic land, effectively 'blinking' the card through your hand using the Web-slinging cost.
Roaming ThroneIf you have Roaming Throne on the battlefield with 'Human' or 'Spider' chosen as the creature type, it will not double the Web-slinging cost itself because that is an alternative cost to cast, not a triggered ability. However, if Spider-Man, Web-Slinger had a triggered ability that triggered when he entered the battlefield, Roaming Throne would cause that ability to trigger an additional time.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Spider-Man, Web-Slinger
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
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.
- #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
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.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Dazzling Theater // Prop Room + Arachne, Psionic Weaver + Spider-Man, Web-Slinger
- 1Cast Arachne for its web-slinging cost, tapping Spider-Man to convoke the spell through Dazzling Theater and then returning Spider-Man from the battlefield to your hand.
- 2Cast Spider-Man for its web-slinging cost, tapping Arachne to convoke the spell through Dazzling Theater and then returning Arachne from the battlefield to your hand.
- 3Repeat.
We Ride at Dawn + Arachne, Psionic Weaver + Spider-Man, Web-Slinger
- 1Cast Arachne for its web-slinging cost, tapping Spider-Man to convoke the spell through We Ride at Dawn and then returning Spider-Man from the battlefield to your hand.
- 2Cast Spider-Man for its web-slinging cost, tapping Arachne to convoke the spell through We Ride at Dawn and then returning Arachne from the battlefield to your hand.
- 3Repeat.
Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight + Arachne, Psionic Weaver + Spider-Man, Web-Slinger
- 1Cast Arachne for its web-slinging cost, tapping Spider-Man to convoke the spell through Eirdu and then returning Spider-Man from the battlefield to your hand.
- 2Cast Spider-Man for its web-slinging cost, tapping Arachne to convoke the spell through Eirdu and then returning Arachne from the battlefield to your hand.
- 3Repeat.
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