Card

Arachne, Psionic Weaver

Mana cost {2}{W}

Legendary Creature — Spider Human Hero 3/3

Web-slinging {W} (You may cast this spell for {W} if you also return a tapped creature you control to its owner's hand.) As Arachne enters, look at an opponent's hand, then choose a card type other than creature. Spells of the chosen type cost {1} more to cast.

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 1 known combo. 6 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · SPM · #2
Cheapest printing
€0.33
EDHREC salt
0.61
Color identity
White
Keywords
Web-slinging

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

1 known combo.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2025-09-19 · 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.
  • 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
    Card types other than creature include artifact, battle, enchantment, instant, kindred, planeswalker, and sorcery. Technically, you could also choose land, but lands are never cast, so doing so would have no effect. (The same is true for card types that don't appear in most games, like plane or scheme.)
  • 2025-09-19 · 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.
  • 2025-09-19 · 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.
  • 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
    You can't choose a subtype, such as creature types like Spider or Hero, artifact types like Treasure or Food, or enchantment types like Aura.
  • 2025-09-19 · 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.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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