GreenLegendary Creature — Spider Boar HeroSpider-Ham, Peter Porker
Mana value2Rank#6,910
The Commander
When Spider-Ham enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "
, 
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Animal May-Ham — Other Spiders, Boars, Bats, Bears, Birds, Cats, Dogs, Frogs, Jackals, Lizards, Mice, Otters, Rabbits, Raccoons, Rats, Squirrels, Turtles, and Wolves you control get +1/+1.
Guide
Gameplan
Spider-Ham is a 2-mana mono-green anthem that pumps a huge swath of common creature types (Spiders, Bears, Birds, Cats, etc.). You flood the board with cheap critters and small-animal tokens, drop Spider-Ham early to give them all +1/+1, then snowball with go-wide damage and overrun effects. Cheap commander means you can recast through removal and keep applying pressure.
Strengths
- Extremely cheap commander (2 mana) that comes down early and rebuilds easily
- Anthem covers so many creature types that almost any green creature deck benefits
- Free Food token gives incidental lifegain and artifact/sacrifice synergy
- Mono-green gives access to the best ramp and the deepest token/typal support
Weaknesses
- Static +1/+1 only matters if you have a board, so you fold to wraths
- No evasion or card advantage built in—can stall against bigger creatures and fliers
- Mono-green lacks interaction, especially against combo and control
- Relies on the commander staying alive to keep the anthem online
Key Cards
- Overrun — Turns the buffed wide board into a one-shot lethal alpha strike.
- Craterhoof Behemoth — The premier finisher that scales with your token count for instant kills.
- Cathars' Crusade — Stacks counters on your whole team alongside the anthem for explosive growth.
- Squirrel Mob — A Squirrel that grows with your other animals and pairs with token makers.
- Beast Whisperer — Refills your hand as you chain cheap creatures onto the board.
Upgrade Path
Prioritize cheap, repeatable token engines (Scute Swarm, Chatterfang, Parallel Lives, Doubling Season) and payoff finishers (Craterhoof, Overwhelming Stampede). Add fast ramp (Sol Ring, Three Visits, Nature's Lore) so you land the commander and a payoff early, and include protection like Heroic Intervention and Asceticism to survive board wipes. Trim purely vanilla animals for ones that draw cards or generate value (Beast Whisperer, Guardian Project, Tireless Provisioner).
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Alpha strike with Overrun or Craterhoof Behemoth
- ▸Go-wide combat damage from a buffed token army
- ▸Trample/evasion beatdown with Pathbreaker Ibex or Beastmaster Ascension
Archetypes
- Tokens / Go-Wide — The anthem makes a swarm of small token animals lethal in bulk.
- Typal Beatdown — Buffs nearly every relevant green creature type, rewarding a creature-dense board.
- Food / Lifegain — The ETB Food and supporting effects fuel a sacrifice and life subtheme.
- +1/+1 Counters — Pairs with counter generators since the anthem keeps everything above curve.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (G), by popularity.
