{"id":10476,"date":"2026-01-05T21:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=10476"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:12:29","slug":"mtgs-lorwyn-eclipse-reveal-included-a-brand-new-card-that-made-a-spider-man-hero-out-of-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=10476","title":{"rendered":"MTG’s Lorwyn Eclipse reveal included a brand new card that made a Spider-Man hero out of date"},"content":{"rendered":"


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There’s nothing extra irritating in Magic: The Gathering<\/em><\/a> than falling prey to blue’s most annoying gimmick: the Counterspell. Blue’s total coloration identification is about controlling the circulate of play and manipulating each the battlefield and gamers’ palms with magic. For a comparatively low value, somebody taking part in blue can counter virtually any spell, no matter how costly, primarily making that spell a complete waste of time and mana. That is what makes any form of counter to counterspells so darn satisfying. Although the Spider-Man set<\/a> does not have a ton of compelling playing cards to supply, Spider-Punk<\/a> stands out as an elite purple card that is viable in most recreation codecs, primarily due to one potential: Spells and skills cannot be countered. So long as he stays on the board, it primarily disables counterspells throughout your entire desk. At four-player Commander tables, that has a big impact.<\/p>\n

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However transfer over Spider-Punk, aka Hobart “Hobie” Brown, as a result of there is a new counterspell troll within the recreation \u2014 or moderately, counterspell boggart. With the worldwide debut<\/a> of the upcoming Lorwyn Eclipsed<\/em> set on Jan. 5, Wizards of the Coast revealed the goblin sorcerer known as Hexing Squelcher.<\/p>\n

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You possibly can’t counter Hexing Squelcher. And as soon as he is on the board, he protects his participant’s total board from counters.<\/figcaption>Picture: Wizards of the Coast<\/small><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

Hexing Squelcher is a 2\/2 that prices one colorless and one purple mana. It might’t be countered and has a Ward value of “Pay 2 life,” so it might’t be focused by any spells except the caster provides up two life. Nevertheless it additionally has “Spells you management cannot be countered” and offers the identical ward to different creatures you management. (Identify-wise, Hexing Squelcher looks like an apparent riff on Vexing Shusher<\/em><\/a> from the Shadowmoor<\/em> set, a red-green creature that, for the price of one purple or one inexperienced mana, may make it so {that a} goal spell couldn’t be countered.)<\/p>\n

Examine that to Spider-Punk: It is a 2\/1 with the identical value. It disables counters for your entire board and makes it in order that injury can’t be prevented. It additionally has riot (it enters with a +1\/+1 counter or haste) and offers all your spiders riot.<\/p>\n

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Spider-Punk nonetheless stays a powerful card with different usefull talents.<\/figcaption>Picture: Wizards of the Coast<\/small><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

Due to the limitation on Spider-Punk’s riot-gifting potential (it solely results spiders), it features greatest in a spider-focused deck. And since it is a Legendary creature, that solely additional limits its potential. In Commander, the place you may solely have one distinctive copy of any card in your deck anyway, Legendary is not a giant deal. However in additional conventional recreation codecs, the place you may have as much as 4 copies of a card in your deck, Legendary means you may solely have one model of the cardboard on the board at any given time. Even that is not too huge of a deal contemplating each playing cards disable counters as a blanket impact. However Hexing Squelcher makes it in order that “spells YOU management” cannot be countered, whereas Spider-Punk does it for ALL spells. And in the event you’re feeling super-redundant, you may refill your board with Hexing Squelchers to make sure that your opponent by no means counters any of your spells ever once more. Even when they take away as much as three of them, so long as one stays on the board, you are secure from the torment of a counterspell.<\/p>\n

That distinction is most obvious in four-player Commander. Spider-Punk helps no less than two opposing gamers in that state of affairs, whereas Hexing Squelcher helps solely you. And since goblin is such a typical and fashionable creature sort, the Squelcher is about to turn out to be a significant element in just about each goblin deck transferring ahead. Heck, it is value together with in virtually any deck that even dips purple. It will be attention-grabbing to see the way it may get integrated into skilled tier decks, significantly the place blue-red stays the most well-liked coloration combo.<\/p>\n

For now, the Magic scene awaits the grand debut of Hexing Squelcher when Lorwyn Eclipsed<\/em> has Play Early occasions at native recreation shops from Jan. 15 to 22 earlier than a full launch on Jan. 23.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s nothing extra irritating in Magic: The Gathering than falling prey to blue’s most annoying gimmick: the Counterspell. Blue’s total coloration identification is about controlling the circulate of play and manipulating each the battlefield and gamers’ palms with magic. For a comparatively low value, somebody taking part in blue can counter virtually any spell, no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[779,2859,3101,7267,7216,7266,4253,1671,3876],"class_list":["post-10476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-card","tag-eclipse","tag-hero","tag-included","tag-lorwyn","tag-mtgs","tag-obsolete","tag-reveal","tag-spiderman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10477,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10476\/revisions\/10477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}