Glass Asp
Creature — Snake
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses 2 life at the beginning of their next draw step unless they pay 
before that step.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #26429
Glass Asp forces any player it damages to pay 2 life or lose the ability to play lands next turn — on a 1/2 body for three mana. That rate is too slow and too fragile to matter in any powered environment, and the effect rarely closes games.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Glass Asp is a 40-life format where draining two life and threatening a land lock on one opponent barely registers — your three other enemies are unaffected, and a 1/2 dies to everything. Pauper is the one format where the effect could theoretically matter in a slowing, grinding list, but even there the mana cost buys bodies that actually trade. Legacy and Vintage have the card pool to ignore it entirely. Glass Asp is legal across most formats and sees meaningful play in none of them.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Glass Asp sits firmly in bulk territory. It won't appreciate — there's no competitive demand pulling it anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.