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Soulcoil Viper

First printed in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (2023)

Soulcoil Viper

Creature — Snake

Black, tap, 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

2/3

Illustrated by
Allen Douglas

Legality

Legal in
Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Not legal in
Pauper, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH

Rulings (5)
  • 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.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI), Premier Draft 52.9% -2.4 +1.4 21177
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI), Sealed 52.5% -3.1 -0.4 1705
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen