Serpent Generator
Artifact
, 
: Create a 1/1 colorless Snake artifact creature token. It has "Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter." (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Chronicles Foreign Black Border
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #23025
Serpent Generator is a mana sink that converts six mana per activation into a 1/1 deathtouch token — slow, expensive, and easy to remove before it does anything meaningful. Six mana for the artifact plus two more per Snake is a steep ask when most token strategies can flood the board far more efficiently.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Serpent Generator is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the only home where it sees any real consideration is Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, six mana for an artifact that does nothing until you spend two more is completely unplayable against the speed of those formats. Commander is where slow, repeatable token engines get a chance to breathe, and Serpent Generator's deathtouch rider gives it a niche: the tokens punch above their power in combat and blank most attackers. Even so, it competes against a deep pool of cheaper, more explosive token generators and rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated artifact or token synergy builds.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Serpent Generator isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest — as an older artifact with niche appeal, it tends to sit in the bulk-to-low-value range. If you find a copy cheaply, the ask is low enough that experimenting in a token or artifact deck carries minimal financial risk.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.