Soulcoil Viper
Creature — Snake
"As the snake sheds its skin to be born anew, we cast off death to rise as servants of Aclazotz." —Vito, Church of Dusk heretic
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2015
- Pull rate
- about 1 per booster–1 in 1104
- Illustrator
- Allen Douglas
- Found in
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan MTGO Redemption · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan MTGO Redemption Foil · 3 more
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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.)Plays as: Reanimation
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Rulings
5 · latest Nov 10, 2023 · one tap opens all
- WotCNov 10, 2023
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.
- WotCNov 10, 2023
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.
- WotCNov 10, 2023
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.
- WotCNov 10, 2023
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.
- WotCNov 10, 2023
Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.