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Stonecoil Serpent

Artifact Creature — Snake

Reach, trample, protection from multicolored
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

CMC
0
Mana cost
{X}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
The List
Price
$1.44
EDHREC rank
#1542
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Stonecoil Serpent card art
Stonecoil Serpent enters as an X/X with reach, trample, and protection from multicolored — a resilient, scalable threat that dodges most of the interaction at a Commander table. The cost is that it does nothing on its own; it needs a deck built around X-spells or counters payoffs to be anything more than a vanilla beater, but in the right shell — Metastatic Evangel spreading those +1/+1 counters or Zimone, Infinite Analyst generating infinite mana to sink into it — it becomes a genuine win condition.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zimone, Infinite Analyst

Zimone, Infinite Analyst

70.7% of decks · synergy 0.68

Zimone, Infinite Analyst's infinite-mana loops need a place to put arbitrarily large amounts of mana, and Stonecoil Serpent is one of the cleanest sinks in the format — cast it as a game-ending threat with protection from the multicolored removal that would otherwise stop it cold.

02
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet

Rosheen, Roaring Prophet

67.6% of decks · synergy 0.66

Rosheen, Roaring Prophet generates mana specifically for X-spells, and Stonecoil Serpent is exactly the kind of efficient, resilient X-spell that turns that mana into a board presence that's hard to answer cleanly.

03
Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

64.7% of decks · synergy 0.63

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer cares about snakes and +1/+1 counters, and Stonecoil Serpent is a snake that enters with a pile of counters — it slots directly into the tribal synergy engine while being independently hard to kill.

04
Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate

Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate

77.9% of decks · synergy 0.57

Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate's counter-proliferation strategy wants creatures that enter with a lot of +1/+1 counters to multiply, and a large Stonecoil Serpent gives the deck a colorless, protection-laden body that scales out of control as Omarthis keeps pushing counters onto it.

05
Zaxara, the Exemplary

Zaxara, the Exemplary

58.0% of decks · synergy 0.54

Zaxara, the Exemplary creates Hydra tokens whenever you cast an X-spell, so Stonecoil Serpent pulls double duty — it's both a protected threat and a free token generator that rewards you for sinking large amounts of mana into a single cast.

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

In Commander, Stonecoil Serpent is a reliable X-spell payoff: colorless casting cost means it fits in any deck, and protection from multicolored blanks a significant portion of the format's removal and blockers. In Modern and Pioneer, it saw real play as a sideboard and even main-deck threat specifically because protection from multicolored lines up well against Wrenn and Six and other Simic-style midrange staples, though its stock in those formats rises and falls with the prevalence of multicolored midrange. Legacy and Vintage have enough raw power density that a do-nothing-until-you-pay-enough creature rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated X-spell shells. Stonecoil Serpent is at its best wherever you can guarantee dumping a lot of mana into it on a single cast and need the resulting body to be difficult to answer.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.44 cheap tier

At $1.44, Stonecoil Serpent sits in the cheap tier — easy to acquire and broadly useful enough across Commander, Modern, and Pioneer that it's not going anywhere. It's a safe pickup at this price for any deck that can use it, and there's no budget alternative that replicates the combination of colorless cost, scaling stats, and protection from multicolored.

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