Soulcoil Viper
Soulcoil Viper: Creature - Snake, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Creature - Snake
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Power / toughness
- 2/3
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
- Released
- 2023-11-17
- Collector number
- 120
- Artist
- Allen Douglas
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About Soulcoil Viper
Soulcoil Viper is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon black creature from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI), an expansion set released in November 2023. It is collector number 120 in that set, with art by Allen Douglas. It costs {2}{B} (two generic and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 2/3 creature. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. The Lost Caverns of Ixalan is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.21 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
{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.)
"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
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.21 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Soulcoil Viper by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Soulcoil Viper, newest first.
- 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.
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