Shoal Serpent
Creature — Serpent
Defender
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature loses defender until end of turn.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Zendikar
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #26753
Shoal Serpent is a 7/7 for six mana that enters tapped and can't attack until it gets a +1/+1 counter — a drawback that costs you a full combat step on a creature that's supposed to be your threat. Bulk rare territory: there are cheaper, faster, and more impactful sea serpents at every point on the curve.
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 |
Shoal Serpent is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but that breadth doesn't translate to playability. In Commander, a six-mana 7/7 that sits out its first attack is simply outclassed — Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle and Inkwell Leviathan do more for less friction. In Pauper, where it's a common, the tempo loss of entering tapped and needing a counter to attack disqualifies it from any aggressive or tempo shell. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in a vanilla-adjacent sea serpent at six.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Shoal Serpent is deep bulk — the price reflects the demand, which is essentially none. It won't fall further, but it won't recover either; pick it up only if a specific janky sea-serpent tribal list calls for bodies at any cost.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.