Ukud Cobra
Creature — Snake
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dragons of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #23714
Ukud Cobra enters the battlefield and immediately taxes every opponent's board — each other creature gets a deathtouch counter, turning the table into a minefield of two-for-one threats. The cost is a three-mana 1/4 with no immediate clock, so you're running it for the board state it creates, not the damage it deals.
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, Ukud Cobra does real work — distributing deathtouch counters across every other creature at a four-player table creates immediate deterrence and fuels counter-synergy commanders without requiring setup. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, a 1/4 for three mana with a symmetrical effect that often helps your opponent's blockers as much as your own is simply too slow and the wrong direction for aggressive or tempo strategies. Vintage offers no reason to reach for it either — the effect doesn't approach the power level of that format's threats. Ukud Cobra is a Commander card through and through: the multiplayer context is what makes distributing counters to a dozen creatures valuable rather than self-defeating.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Ukud Cobra sits firmly in bulk territory — you're picking it up as an afterthought in a collection or tossing it in a cart with other low-cost pieces. Don't expect the price to move; niche synergy cards at this tier rarely spike unless a specific commander breaks into the mainstream spotlight.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.