Marvel's Spider-Man continues its heroic hits with flavorful cards that pack a punch in Commander. Today we're diving into the colorless picks: artifacts and lands that any deck can run, regardless of color identity.
Unlike the mono-colored sections, every one of these cards is fair game across the format. That means they can either sneak into the 99 of your favorite Commander brew or serve as powerful utility options. So, let's crack open the newspaper, adjust our web shooters, and see which colorless cards swing the hardest in EDH.
Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
Peter's Stark-designed armor shows up as a legendary artifact creature, and this one screams +1/+1 counter synergies. Vigilance already gives you offense and defense, but tapping Iron Spider puts a counter on each artifact creature or Vehicle you control. That can snowball quickly in token-heavy or modular decks.
The activated ability to cash in two artifacts with counters to draw a card makes it not just an engine but also card advantage in decks that struggle to keep gas flowing.
Plays well with:
- Marvin, Murderous Mimic - would copy Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade's abilities for more activations.
- Hardened Scales or Doubling Season - doubles the +1/+1 counters.
- Shorikai, Genesis Engine - Vehicle synergy plus artifacts galore.
- The Ozolith - Bank all those counters if Iron Spider ever gets removed.
Peter Parker's Camera
This is the perfect flavor-meets-function card. Peter Parker's Camera comes in with three film counters, and you can pay two mana and tap to copy any activated or triggered ability you control. Copying abilities is one of those deceptively strong effects in EDH, since it can double up your best engines or stack powerful triggers.
Want to double your Solemn Simulacrum death trigger? How about reusing a Planeswalker's loyalty ability? Parker's Camera snaps it all. It's limited to three uses, but in a deck that can bounce or recur artifacts, that's plenty of shots to make it worthwhile.
Plays well with:
- Strionic Resonator - The "ability copier's club" in full force.
- Panharmonicon - Copy your ETBs twice for absurd value.
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch - Easy recursion to reload the Camera with new counters.
- Lithoform Engine - goes insane and would be a good combo piece with other cards.
Interdimensional Web Watch
This one is a sleeper hit. When it enters, you exile the top two cards of your library and can play them until the end of your next turn - giving you a temporary burst of card advantage. But the real spice is its mana ability: tap it to add two mana of any color, but you can only spend it to cast spells from exile.
This pairs beautifully with impulsive draw effects, cascade decks, or anything that regularly dips into exile as a resource. With this artifact in play, your red impulsive draw cards like Jeska's Will or Light Up the Stage get a boost, and commanders like Prosper, Tome-Bound or Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald see this as auto-include territory.
Plays well with:
- Prosper, Tome-Bound - Turns all that exile casting into treasure and value.
- Laelia, the Blade Reforged - More fuel for her attack triggers.
- Wild-Magic Sorcerer - Cascade plus extra mana to pay off the spells you flip.
- Maelstrom Wanderer - Classic cascade commander for old heads like myself.
Daily Bugle Building
Every good superhero story needs a media outlet, and the Daily Bugle Building shows up here as a mana-fixing land. It taps for colorless or any color, making it a flexible piece in multicolor decks. The Smear Campaign ability adds even more juice: for one mana, tap, and another, a legendary creature gains menace until end of turn. Sure, it doesn't make things totally unblockable like Rogue's Passage but its three mana less to activate which in Magic: the Gathering is such a huge discount.
Giving menace to your commander is often all it takes to get in crucial combat damage or trigger commander damage-based strategies. Think Voltron decks or legends-matter archetypes - the Bugle is a flavorful land with actual teeth.
Plays well with:
- Jodah, the Unifier - You're already playing a legends matter deck, toss this in as it also can tap for any color.
- Toski, Bearer of Secrets or Tymna the Weaver - Both are legendaries that draw you cards for hitting someone in combat.
- Sisay, Weatherlight Captain - A legends-focused deck that loves mana fixing and combat keywords. (Okay, this is kinda the same as Jodah above.)
- Sphere Grid - Grows your beasty with each hit.
Transparent Thoughts
Colorless cards are sometimes the glue that makes Commander decks function, and the Marvel's Spider-Man set added some standouts. It isn't that obvious but, there's real utility here that goes beyond simple flavor callbacks. I'm sure these cards will find homes in Commander tables everywhere if they have not already.
Just like Peter balancing his double life, these colorless pieces balance flavor and function in ways that any deck can use.









