Soulcoil Viper
Creature — Snake
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, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #16112
Soulcoil Viper enters as a 1/1 deathtouch snake that immediately poisons an opponent for one poison counter — free incremental pressure the moment it lands. The rate is honest: one mana for a body that trades with anything and starts a poison clock.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Soulcoil Viper earns a slot in poison-counter and infect strategies where every early counter matters and a one-mana deathtouch blocker pulls double duty. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, the bar for one-drops is brutal and Soulcoil Viper doesn't clear it — decks that want poison have faster, more redundant options. Standard is where it sees the most legitimate action outside Commander, as a cheap threat in any aggressive poison shell that needs curve-filler with upside. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Soulcoil Viper is pure bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price rarely move unless a format staple emerges around them, and nothing points that direction here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.