The Best Instants and Sorceries in Marvel's Spider-Man

<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Beyond the Quiet|eoe|303" href="#" target="_blank">Beyond the Quiet</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> | Art by <a href="https://www.serenamalyon.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Serena Malyon</a></em></p>
<p>Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought" href="#" target="_blank">Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, which as a legendary Spacecraft is now legal as your commander.</p>
<p>I'm not sure where I was going with all that, especially given that I'm here to talk about instants and sorceries in <em>Edge of Eternities</em>. So let's do that!</p>
<h2><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Archenemy&#039;s Charm" href="#" target="_blank">Archenemy&#039;s Charm</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h2>
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<p>Three mana to exile a creature or planeswalker is fairly reasonable overall, especially at instant speed. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Unmake" href="#" target="_blank">Unmake</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is still in almost 3,700 decks after all. Once you factor in that's just one of three possible modes though, things get really interesting.</p>
<p>Returning up to two creatures or planeswalkers to hand isn't a bad option, but the choice to put two +1/+1 counters on a creature you control and give it lifelink has a lot of synergy with multiple decks.</p>
<p>Now, triple black pips is a bit of a hard ask in some decks; I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with it even in a two-color list. In mono-black though it's really easy to hit, though I'll note it's by no means an auto-include. Still, it's a card I'm probably going to strongly consider in any all black lists moving forward, and that says a lot, given all the competition.</p>
<h2><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Cerebral Download" href="#" target="_blank">Cerebral Download</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h2>
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<p>Five mana to draw three isn't a great rate, even at instant speed. Where things get really interesting with Cerebral Download is in a deck with a heavy artifact theme, given the "Surveil X, where X is the number of artifacts you control."</p>
<p>Artifact token decks, particularly Treasure decks, but also ones built around Food, Clues, and all of the above, qualify, as do Equipment builds, and just plain old-fashioned artifact creature and artifact shenanigan lists. In those archetype decks and in others, this isn't a mere draw three, but instead a draw the best three of a dozen, fifteen, maybe twenty cards - and that's amazing.</p>
<p>Things get even better when you can then put the rest of the cards into your graveyard, which is functionally a second hand for plenty of decks. This isn't a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Stock Up" href="#" target="_blank">Stock Up</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> situation where it's a great draw option in every deck, but in the decks where it works it's amazing.</p>
<h2><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Consult the Star Charts" href="#" target="_blank">Consult the Star Charts</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h2>
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<p>Once you get past turn two or three, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Consult the Star Charts" href="#" target="_blank">Consult the Star Charts</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is very comparable to <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Impulse" href="#" target="_blank">Impulse</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, a card that's in almost 50,000 decks. A few turns further than that and you start looking at kicking it then the ceiling gets way higher.</p>
<p>Assuming you're hitting your land drops each turn, an unkicked Consult lets you dig deeply, and if you're ramping you dig even further faster, with the option to pay an added <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-1" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-u" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span> to keep an additional card. It's an instant as well, which is just another notch in this card's space helmet.</p>
<h2><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Devastating Onslaught" href="#" target="_blank">Devastating Onslaught</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h2>
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<p>Making a temp token copy of an artifact or creature you control for <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-2" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-r" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span> is a respectable rate, and Devastating Onslaught isn't just locked to making one token. The more mana you have, the more you can spend, and the more tokens you can generate as it lets you spend <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-x" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-x" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-r" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span> to make as many tokens as you have mana.</p>
<p>That's a very powerful effect in a general sense, but in a deck filled with creatures with enters triggers, it's a crazy amount of value. Brews heavy on ETB creatures should probably at least be considering adding this card, but it also has a home in ones that care about tokens, haste (like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Ognis, the Dragon&#039;s Lash" href="#" target="_blank">Ognis, the Dragon&#039;s Lash</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>), or sacrificing things.</p>
<p>It just does a lot in a lot of different decks.</p>
<h2><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Emergency Eject" href="#" target="_blank">Emergency Eject</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h2>
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<p>Emergency Eject is white's third variant on green's <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Beast Within" href="#" target="_blank">Beast Within</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> after <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Generous Gift" href="#" target="_blank">Generous Gift</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Stroke of Midnight" href="#" target="_blank">Stroke of Midnight</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. It's probably the worst of the three effects, but worst in this context is still very good; I'll almost always be happy to pay three mana to destroy a non-land permanent at instant speed.</p>
<p>Whereas the previous versions of this card made creature tokens, Emergency Eject makes a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Lander" href="#" target="_blank">Lander</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> token, which is an artifact that lets you spend two mana to tap and sacrifice it to search your library for a basic land that to you into play tapped. The fact that they don't get a chump blocker is nice, but I'm not sure ramping your opponent is better, even if they have to spend two mana to do it.</p>
<p>It's still a very good card, but the question winds up being whether it's good enough to either displace one of the previous variants, or whether or not you want three of these in your deck. Basically, Emergency Eject's biggest bar to entry in decks will be competition from the other iterations.</p>
<p>When Generous Gift was released there was rarely a question about whether or not it was an upgrade over the alternatives. That's just no longer the case with Emergency Eject.</p>
<h2><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Planetary Annihilation" href="#" target="_blank">Planetary Annihilation</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h2>
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<p>And the award for "Card mostly likely to make Reddit users post asking if a card that destroys a bunch of lands counts as mass land destruction" goes to . . . Planetary Annihilation.</p>
<p>Yes, destroying a bunch of lands counts as mass land destruction. Yes, you knew that before making a post that wasn't asking for clarification so much as it was asking for permission. Yes it's still a solid card.</p>
<p>It's not a way to keep green land ramp decks in check, because that's not what mass land destruction does, but in the right shell in the right bracket it's a very useful control tool given the stapled-on board wipe.</p>
<h2><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Scour for Scrap" href="#" target="_blank">Scour for Scrap</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h2>
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<p>What's better than an instant speed tutor that lets you search up an artifact card to hand for <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-3" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-u" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span>? One that can also return an artifact card from your graveyard to your hand at the same time.</p>
<p>Despite being a modular card, Scour for Scrap contains the magical words "Choose one or both." Sure, both those modes are maybe a bit over-costed, but the fact that you don't need to choose between the two as Scour lets you pick both at the same time more than offsets that cost</p>
<p>Once you evaluate the combined options the card's strength becomes so much more obvious. So tutor up that artifact and recur another while you do it. That's well worth four mana.</p>
<h2><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Singularity Rupture" href="#" target="_blank">Singularity Rupture</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h2>
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<p>I suppose you can technically use Singularity Rupture in a mill deck, and I'm sure it'll see play in that kind of list, but I'm going to bet a whole lot of graveyard players wind up targeting themselves with the "mill half your library" trigger. I've probably seen more <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Traumatize" href="#" target="_blank">Traumatize</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> casts over the years targeting the caster for this reason, and I would bet we see the same here.</p>
<p>That said, if you're in a deck built around mill as a win condition, you're going to need to run board wipes anyway. So why not make your board wipe a card that can also be used to mill your opponents?</p>
<p>Either way, whether you're using it to remove an opponent's library or to enable your own <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Living Death" href="#" target="_blank">Living Death</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>-esque plan, it's going to see significant play.</p>
<h2><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Space-Time Anomaly" href="#" target="_blank">Space-Time Anomaly</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h2>
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<p>We've gotten a recent micro-trend of cards that mill based on life gain, starting with <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Hope Estheim" href="#" target="_blank">Hope Estheim</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. As with <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Singularity Rupture" href="#" target="_blank">Singularity Rupture</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> however I would guess that outside Hope lists we primarily see Space-Time Anomaly be used to self-mill in some kind of reanimation package more than we see it used as a way to mill an opponent out.</p>
<h2>A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy . . .</h2>
<p>That wraps up our coverage of the notable instant and sorcery cards in the <em>Edge of Eternities</em> set. This is a set much more based on notable permanents than one-off spells, but even in a set like this there are impactful keepers.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading, and remember, EDHREC your deck before you wreck your deck!</p>
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