Sinuous Striker
Creature — Snake Warrior
: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
Eternalize—
, Discard a card. (, Discard a card, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Warrior with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Hour of Devastation
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #28631
Sinuous Striker is a repeatable pump-and-unblock engine stapled to a 2/3 body — every spell you cast can make it unblockable and bigger, which adds up fast in spell-dense decks. The cost is that it does nothing without a steady stream of instants and sorceries, making it a dead draw in slower or creature-based builds.
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 |
In Commander, Sinuous Striker fits narrowly into spellslinger builds that can guarantee multiple spell triggers per turn cycle — outside that lane, a 2/3 for two with conditional upside doesn't pull weight at a four-player table. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, it competes against far more efficient threats and sees no competitive play; the payoff ceiling is too low for formats where games end on turns three through five. Sinuous Striker is a Commander-only consideration in practice, and even there it's a role-player, not a cornerstone.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Sinuous Striker is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point don't hold value, so there's no reason to hesitate picking up copies if the deck calls for it.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.