Biolume Egg // Biolume Serpent
Creature — Serpent Egg // Creature — Serpent
Defender
When this creature enters, scry 2.
When you sacrifice this creature, return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad Remastered
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #20781
Biolume Egg // Biolume Serpent gives you a 3/3 unblockable body that replaces itself with a card when it dies, all stapled to a flip condition that demands two sacrifices — the payoff is real, but six mana across two turns to get a 6/6 with ward is a steep ask. Run it in decks that want the egg as a sacrifice target first and the serpent as a bonus, not the other way around.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Biolume Egg // Biolume Serpent actually belongs — sacrifice synergy decks, particularly those built around Gisa and Geralf, Wilhelt the Rotcleaver, or any aristocrats shell, can exploit both halves. The egg's death trigger draws a card, which is real value in a format full of wraths, and the serpent is a reasonable late-game threat if you ever get there. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Modern, a six-mana 6/6 with ward 2 doesn't clear the bar when the format closes out well before you untap with it. Pioneer is the same story — the card is legal but irrelevant. Treat Biolume Egg // Biolume Serpent as a Commander-only card; the other formats are incidental.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Biolume Egg // Biolume Serpent is deep bulk — you're paying for a sleeve, not the card. There's no price trajectory to worry about here; casual demand keeps it in the penny bin and nothing about its power level changes that.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.