MTG’s Lorwyn Eclipse reveal included a new card that made a Spider-Man hero obsolete

There’s nothing more frustrating in Magic: The Gathering than falling prey to blue’s most annoying gimmick: the Counterspell. Blue’s entire color identity is about controlling the flow of play and manipulating both the battlefield and players’ hands with magic. For a relatively low cost, someone playing blue can counter almost any spell, regardless of how expensive, essentially making that spell a total waste of time and mana. That’s what makes any sort of counter to counterspells so darn satisfying. Though the Spider-Man set doesn’t have a ton of compelling cards to offer, Spider-Punk stands out as an elite red card that’s viable in most game formats, mainly because of one ability: Spells and abilities can’t be countered. As long as he remains on the board, it essentially disables counterspells across the entire table. At four-player Commander tables, that has a huge impact.