When Marvel meets Magic: The Gathering, you know we're in for some flavorful and powerful designs. The Marvel's Spider-Man set is packed with web-slinging heroes but today, we're looking at the sinister side. Yes, we're looking at the best Black cards for Commander.

Black has always been about ambition, sacrifice, and graveyard synergy and in this set, those themes intertwine ingeniously with the darker side of the Marvel universe. That said, let's dive into the shadows.

The Soul Stone

The Soul Stone is arguably one of the most exciting designs in the set because it doesn't just stand alone it feels like the beginning of something bigger. We know the Infinity Stones will eventually come together, and this one sets the tone.

For just two mana, you get an indestructible mana rock that taps for Black. Already solid. But once you harness it by exiling a creature, things get wild. At your upkeep, it reanimates a creature every turn.

Graveyard decks like Meren of Clan Nel Toth, The Scarab God, or Karador, Ghost Chieftain salivate at repeatable recursion engines, especially ones that dodge most removal. The harness cost looks steep (sacrificing a creature and paying six mana), but in Commander, that's more of an investment than a downside. Once active, this stone will bury opponents under value.

Plays well with:

• Sakura-Tribe Elder - the perfect harness fodder.
• Kokusho, the Evening Star - sacrifice it, harness the Stone, and then bring it back every upkeep and watch life totals go down.
• Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER - the hot mono-block commander that loves sacrificing your own stuff
• Phyrexian Altar - loop creatures for mana while Soul Stone keeps the train going.

Agent Venom

Flash. Menace. A death trigger that draws cards. Agent Venom does it all.

As a 3-drop, he's already efficient, but his true value lies in his text box: Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you draw a card and lose 1 life. That's Midnight Reaper with flash speed and menace stapled on.

He shines in aristocrats decks where creatures are constantly dying... think Teysa Karlov, Yahenni, Undying Partisan, or Korvold, Fae-Cursed King. The life loss barely matters when you're churning through cards and setting up win conditions. His menace keyword also makes him a respectable attacker if you need to apply pressure.

Plays well with:

• Pitiless Plunderer - pairs beautifully with sac outlets for infinite loops.
• Blood Artist / Zulaport Cutthroat - drain opponents as your creatures die.
• Dictate of Erebos - punish opponents for every death trigger.
• Viscera Seer - a free and controllable sacrifice outlet to fuel Agent Venom.

Morlun, Devourer of Spiders

Morlun is a brutal Vampire Villain who doesn't mess around. He enters with X +1/+1 counters, scaling to however much mana you sink in, and he has lifelink to stabilize you. But the real kicker? His ETB ability deals X damage to an opponent.

This makes Morlun, Devourer of Spiders, a flexible finisher and a scaling threat. He's perfect in decks that love big-mana plays like K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth or any Black deck with Cabal Coffers. Drop him for eight or nine mana late game, dome someone for that much damage, and then swing with a huge lifelinking body.

Flavor-wise, he's terrifying. Lore-wise, he's spot on. Commander-wise, he's an efficient beater that pressures life totals immediately.

Plays well with:

• Cabal Coffers / Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth - maximize X value. Classic Black weaponry.
• Exsanguinate - double down on lifegain-drain synergy.
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel - another ETB drain bomb to stack with Morlun.
• Blade of the Bloodchief - turn all those +1/+1 counters into absurd growth.

Villainous Wrath

Not to be confused with Villainous Wealth (coz I had to do a double take when I read this the first time). Board wipes are staples in Commander, but few come with a punishing twist quite like Villainous Wrath.

For five mana, each opponent loses life equal to the number of creatures they control, and then all creatures are destroyed. That's devastating. Against go-wide decks, this is a backbreaking nuke. It's not just a wipe, it's a finisher.

Imagine wiping out tokens decks like Marneus Calgar or Edgar Markov army while shaving 20-30 life from that opponent in one swoop. It's the kind of card that turns the table in your favor from out of nowhere.

Plays well with:

• Toxic Deluge - redundancy in efficient wipes.
• Torment of Hailfire - stack massive life loss effects.
• Exquisite Blood - massive life gain for you to keep you in the game longer.
• Archfiend of Despair - doubles the damage Villainous Wrath deals.

Gwenom, Remorseless

If you wanted the ultimate Spider-Verse payoff in Black, look no further than Gwenom, Remorseless. A 4/4 with deathtouch and lifelink already makes her a great attacker, but her attack trigger is the real prize.

Whenever Gwenom swings, you look at the top card of your library and can play it for life instead of mana. That's an experimental Frenzy meets Bolas's Citadel effect, and it's incredible. Black is already comfortable paying life for power, and Gwenom turns every attack into a potential extra spell.

As a commander, she's card advantage in the command zone that scales beautifully with lifegain strategies. As part of the 99, she's a value engine in any deck that can protect her.

Plays well with:

• Bolas's Citadel - the obvious synergy piece.
• Whip of Erebos - double up on lifelink to keep paying life freely.
• Sensei's Divining Top - control what Gwenom flips.
• Aetherflux Reservoir - life gain payoff that pairs hilariously with her.

Sinister Thoughts

The Marvel's Spider-Man set delivers some excellent Black cards that Commander players who love tapping Swamps will want to scoop up. The sheer destructive force that these Black cards have is downright sinister.