Soulcoil Viper
Card Information
Type: Creature — Snake
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 120
Oracle 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.)
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- November 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.
Source: wotc - November 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.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.
Source: wotc - November 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.
Source: wotc - November 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.
Source: wotc
Price History
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