Designer Notes: Load up the board with spiders, then play your commander and turn your opponents creatures into food
This last mode, as originally worded, kept your opponents from tapping their lands, which basically meant you could just cast Absorb during your opponent's upkeep step, and it would essentially force them to skip their entire turn for two mana
It still captured some of the "sensei and student" flavor
Its perhaps due to this easy availability that the non-Enchanted version has a low cost of just $0.20 , making this one of the most genuinely affordable cards on our list
Giving your whole board trample can be a good tool, but its a bit more niche of an effect since youll need a defender creature
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