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CardName: Ghazbán Spider Cost: 2G Type: Creature - Spider Pow/Tgh: 2/5 Rules Text: Reach Whenever a player gains life, they gain control of Ghazbán Spider. Flavour Text: In the Ghazbán, there once lived an insect that reeked of magic, but is now extinct. The spiders don't know this, and crowd any source of life magic in search of their prey. Set/Rarity: Mashup: the Gathering Alpha Uncommon

Ghazbán Spider
{2}{g}
 
 U 
Creature – Spider
Reach
Whenever a player gains life, they gain control of Ghazbán Spider.
In the Ghazbán, there once lived an insect that reeked of magic, but is now extinct. The spiders don't know this, and crowd any source of life magic in search of their prey.
2/5
Updated on 21 May 2014 by jmgariepy

Code: UG03

Active?: true

History: [-]

2011-08-03 06:30:11: jmgariepy created the card Ghazbán Spider

Random Generator gave me Giant Spider and Ghazbán Ogre. That ogre is not my favorite ability, but I do remember having fun in large group games back in the day where people would compete to get the token Ogre, so I get it. Despite my 'getting it', I chose to unget it a little and reward players who do a lot of incremental life gaining instead (that was, after all, the player who got the Ogre in the end).

2011-08-03 06:50:14: jmgariepy edited Ghazbán Spider

Oh, also, if I had complete control of the universe, the flavor text would have alt-text that read "By contrast, the Ghazbán Ogre is just an idiot."

2011-11-27 05:23:37: jmgariepy edited Ghazbán Spider
2011-11-27 05:23:50: jmgariepy moved the card Ghazbán Spider from Mashup: the Gathering Workbench into Mashup: the Gathering Alpha
2012-06-09 11:47:42: jmgariepy edited Ghazbán Spider
2012-06-17 05:50:02: jmgariepy edited Ghazbán Spider

Originally, this was a 2/4, but that was based on a world where gaining life only happened in one in six matchups. As it stands now, Magic: the Gathering Alpha has a cycle of common boons, and will have two life gain spells in common in both green and white (and if another one pops up, I'll probably let it join the fun). That means, in a draft, you'd be unlikely not to see a lifegain spell. Increased to 2/5 to reflect that.

2012-06-17 05:53:21: jmgariepy edited Ghazbán Spider
2014-05-21 00:32:04: jmgariepy edited Ghazbán Spider

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