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Saryth, the Viper's Fang

Legendary Creature — Human Warlock

Other tapped creatures you control have deathtouch.
Other untapped creatures you control have hexproof.
{1}, {T}: Untap another target creature or land you control.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
Price
$2.99
EDHREC rank
#1204
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Saryth, the Viper's Fang card art
Saryth, the Viper's Fang turns every tapped creature you control into a deathtouch threat and every untapped one into a hexproof blocker — two abilities that demand answers from opponents before they can profitably attack or target your board. The cost is a four-mana legendary that does nothing the turn it enters and gets outclassed in shells that don't care about combat, but alongside tap-synergy engines like Kaust, Eyes of the Glade or untap loops with Ioreth of the Healing House, the payoff is immediate and substantial.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Kaust, Eyes of the Glade

Kaust, Eyes of the Glade

55.0% of decks · synergy 0.53

Kaust, Eyes of the Glade taps creatures to generate mana and triggers, so Saryth, the Viper's Fang converts every activation into a live deathtouch threat — opponents can't safely block or trade into anything Kaust has already used.

02
Fynn, the Fangbearer

Fynn, the Fangbearer

50.3% of decks · synergy 0.40

Fynn, the Fangbearer needs deathtouch creatures to connect and dish out poison counters, and Saryth, the Viper's Fang hands that keyword to every tapped attacker on the board simultaneously, turning even utility creatures into lethal poison vectors.

03
Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

43.1% of decks · synergy 0.38

Ruric Thar, the Unbowed runs a creature-heavy, noncreature-punishing gameplan that wants its creatures to be as threatening as possible in combat, and Saryth, the Viper's Fang ensures that attacking with any tapped threat — including Ruric Thar itself — trades up or goes unanswered.

04
Helga, Skittish Seer

Helga, Skittish Seer

40.7% of decks · synergy 0.37

Helga, Skittish Seer cares about untapped creatures surviving long enough to accumulate lore counters, and Saryth, the Viper's Fang's hexproof clause on untapped permanents protects Helga and her targets from targeted removal during that vulnerable window.

05
Maarika, Brutal Gladiator

Maarika, Brutal Gladiator

40.6% of decks · synergy 0.37

Maarika, Brutal Gladiator wants creatures fighting and dying on command, and Saryth, the Viper's Fang makes every tapped attacker a deathtouch fighter — pairing with Maarika's own deathtouch to ensure nothing survives a forced block or fight.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Saryth, the Viper's Fang is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the card is almost exclusively a Commander piece — a four-mana legendary with a passive board-wide effect is too slow and win-more for competitive 60-card formats where the game is often decided before it matters. In Commander, Saryth is a genuine build-around: deathtouch on tapped creatures deters attacks and enables one-sided combat, while hexproof on untapped permanents protects your commander and key pieces from spot removal on your opponents' turns. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where it could realistically slot in as a signature spell complement in a green tap-synergy shell, but the pool is shallow enough that it rarely comes up.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.99 cheap tier

At $2.99, Saryth, the Viper's Fang sits at the low end of legendary creatures with genuine build-around potential — cheap enough to pick up speculatively without much risk. Demand is tied directly to tap-synergy and deathtouch tribal decks, which are popular but not ubiquitous, so the price is unlikely to spike dramatically but equally unlikely to crater further.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.