Gwenom, Remorseless – Marvel’s Spiderman
Date Reviewed: October 7, 2025
Ratings:
Constructed: 4.00
Casual: 4.60
Limited: 4.25
Multiplayer: 4.00
Commander [EDH]: 4.17
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is bad. 3 is average. 5 is great.
Reviews Below:
Gwenom’s library-casting ability may have started off in blue way back in Onslaught, but it’s pretty well-established in black now, and her take on it is actually very effective. I think it’s pretty funny that she has a built-in mitigation for the life payments, because you’d use this ability even if she didn’t; this doesn’t take away from the design overall, which will often come at just the right time in the game to break stalemates or establish dominance over decks with smaller creatures. Once she gets going, she’s very hard to stop, and is a more than worthy addition to black’s list of “greatness at any cost”.
Constructed: 4
Casual: 4.5
Limited: 4.5
Multiplayer: 4
Commander [EDH]: 4
Welcome back, Bolas’s Citadel. Or something like that.
Gwenom, Remorseless is a bit of a latera take on a fairly infamous engine piece from War of the Spark, allowing people to turbo through their decks at breakneck speed as long as they’ve the live to spare. Gwenom isn’t a strict upgrade or downgrade: she does cost less mana, but she lacks haste and needs to attack to turn on the ability (which means she can’t make it pop on other players’ turns). She can recoup some of that life; a 4/4 with deathtouch and lifelink isn’t revolutionary, but it’s good at clearing the way and affording another axis with which you can strike at the opponent.
Gwenom is certainly far more puissant if you can pair her with library manipulation; a land clump will cut your steam in a hurry. That said, this is a very dangerous ability (and she’s quite dangerous for the ability to turn it on), and while I don’t think she’ll usurp the Citadel in deeper formats, it’s redundancy that can also sit as a Commander, and that can be quite scary.
Constructed: 4 (probably won’t make it out of Standard/Pioneer, but the effect is certainly scary)
Casual: 5
Limited: 4.25 (a good creature with major upside)
Multiplayer: 4
Commander [EDH]: 4.5
Thijs
A few weeks back we talked about all the powerful women in Peter Parker’s life. We’re now entering an alternate universe, where Gwen Stacy survived. Not only that, but she’s also bonded herself with the Venom symbiote and has become Gwenom in the process. She’s a superhero now!
This 4/4 deathtouchy lifelinker does something interesting. Every time she attacks, she has you look at the top card of your library, which you may then play until the end of the turn. By paying life instead of mana. Yes, superfriends, you may pay the life that you just gained from Gwenom’s lifelink ability. Yes, that is very powerful.
For 5 mana (including BB) it’s a bit on the expensive end, but boy, what an ability! We’ve seen this ability before, with Bolas’s Citadel and Nashi as prime examples, but Gwenom is the first to actually provide the life needed to pay for the spell.
It’s safe to say that not only is Gwenom awesome, but she’s also a bit scary. The perfect anti-hero?
Constructed: 4
Casual: 4,2
Limited: 4
Multiplayer: 4
Commander [EDH]: 4
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