Spider-Slayer, Hatred Honed

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Spider-Slayer is a 2cmc 2/1 legendary artifact creature whose combat damage trigger only matters against Spiders — a fringe creature type — making the primary ability near-dead in most metas. The graveyard ability generates two flying Robot tokens for {6}, offering late-game token production at steep cost and requiring the card to have died first. Primarily a flavor/Spider-Man set card with negligible competitive relevance outside hyper-specific spider-hate contexts.

• The graveyard ability requires exiling this card from your graveyard for {6} — it is NOT a flashback; the card is exiled as the cost, not as part of resolution, and the tokens enter tapped, so there is no immediate attack.

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• Despite creating Robot artifact creature tokens, there is no 'Robot' tribe in the standard MTG taxonomy; the tokens are better treated as generic artifact creatures for synergy purposes.

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• The combat damage trigger requires Spider-Slayer to actually deal damage to a Spider, not just block or be blocked — the Spider must survive long enough to receive damage, which typically means it has more toughness than Spider-Slayer has power (2), limiting practical destruction targets.

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• EDHREC rank: #18,830