Card

Shelob, Child of Ungoliant

Mana cost {4}{B}{G}

Legendary Creature — Spider Demon 8/8

Deathtouch, ward {2} Other Spiders you control have deathtouch and ward {2}. Whenever another creature dealt damage this turn by a Spider you controlled dies, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a Food artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life," and it loses all other card types.

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 32 known combos. 10 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · LTR · #230
Cheapest printing
€0.96
EDHREC salt
0.40
Color identity
Black, Green
Keywords
Food, Ward, Deathtouch

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

32 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
    Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
  • 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
    Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
  • 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
    You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability.
  • 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    Except for being a Food artifact, having the listed activated ability, and losing all other card types and subtypes, the token copies only what was printed on the original creature (unless that creature is copying something else; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature was tapped or untapped, whether it had any counters on it or Auras or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that had changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.
  • 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    If the copied creature is copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied, with the exceptions noted above.
  • 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    Since the token is a Food artifact and not a creature, it can't attack or block unless it becomes a creature somehow.
  • 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    The token copies the creature as it last existed on the battlefield before it died, not as it exists in the graveyard.
  • 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    If the copied creature is a token, the new token that's created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created that token, with the exceptions noted above.
  • 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the chosen creature will also work.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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