Soulcoil Viper
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Snake
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 3
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #120 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.25 USD
{B}, {T}, 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.)
Soulcoil Viper has 1 printing, first in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (2023). EDHREC ranks it #17,386 among Commander cards. It appears most in Aphelia, Viper Whisperer decks (574 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Soulcoil Viper most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Aphelia, Viper Whisperer: 574 decks
- Butch DeLoria, Tunnel Snake: 110 decks
- Mabel, Bitter Recluse: 25 decks
Often played with Soulcoil Viper
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Because you choose the target of Soulcoil Viper's ability before you pay the cost of sacrificing it, Soulcoil Viper can't be the target of its own ability.
- : Finality counters work on any permanent, not only creatures. If a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.
- : Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.
- : Finality counters don't stop permanents from going to zones other than the graveyard from the battlefield. For example, if a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into its owner's hand from the battlefield, it does so normally.
- : Finality counters aren't keyword counters, and a finality counter doesn't give any abilities to the permanent it's on. If that permanent loses its abilities and then would go to a graveyard, it will still be exiled instead.