One of my favorite cards from the Eventide set. This card is powerful in limited play, and a fun card to play with in casual. Having this kind of removal available for mono green decks even is great.
neruka
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Possibly my favorite removal spell from green and from blue. Certainly not all powerful like Unmake but way funner to play.
davidhuman
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
This is exactly what a green blue hybrid card should be like. Transforms a creature into another creature is kind of blue/ kind of green but very U/G. if this card was a sorcery, and didn't draw a card i bet you could even make it permanent, but g/u likes drawing a card, so make it cost +1 with a reload.
DaaNz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(8 votes)
i would rather kill you all
-ChrisC-
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Playing this in a deck with Briarhorn makes your normal all-in green sneakier. Either you love it or hate it.
snakeform_lol
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(7 votes)
Darksteel Colossus never sees it coming...
MasterOfEtherium
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(8 votes)
Losing His Possessions Distressed Him, But The Lack Of Limbs Was Strangely Liberating.
Kenji18
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Good removal for creatures with -1/-1 counters, good combat trick, but also works offensively with creatures like Vigean Hydropon. It's also a cantrip. I love this card.
Awesome card. I love cards that do really unique, useful things, like making something lose all their abilities, and to have it be a cantrip too seals the deal.
Alas, this still cannot take down Progenitus, due to his inability to be targeted by anything. That's one reason I love Sudden Spoiling so much. ^_^ But a healthy 4.5 for Snakeform and its delightful blue-green-ness.
MrPink343
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
Anything that can drop a Darksteel Collossus for good gets high marks from me.
Zulp
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
One of my favorite noncreature spells of all time. It's unique, flavorful, powerful, fairly priced, and a great example of what its native colors can do when combined. The greatest part is the "loses all abilities" clause. One of the few spells that can deal with Darksteel Colossus outright. One of my friends runs a sliver deck that I have real problems beating, and this could be the card that finally gives me the edge. Nice job, Wizards.
mr_Trickster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I love this card; goes good with Blood Cultist.
My friend stared for a full minute when Big Bad Vigor was pinged out of the battlefield with one damage.
Also, can anyone tell me what will happen if you use this on an unearthed creature after it is unearthed?
Will it still be exiled at the end of turn when it no longer has unearth?
Just curious, as i placed this card as a sideboard on my Grix' deck to counter creatures with protection from B/R, which is rather common where I come from.
Arvesius
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
It's fun, it's useful, it's a common that can take out almost any creature! (Provided you have a snake-stomping blocker). The card drawing effect is what makes this card worth it.
Vishlord
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
'It's unique, flavorful, powerful, fairly priced, and a great example of what its native colors can do when combined.'
Fair point Zulp. Except you don't have to 'combine' the native colours. If it was 1GB I'd love it even more. Don't know if I'm alone in this but I cannot stand the dual- as opposed to multi-coloured cards, and can still barely bring myself to use them.
Ladnarud
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
This is actually an exceedingly good card, even when compared to cards like Sudden Spoiling and Ovinize. Each of these 3 cards have their own pros and cons compared to each other.
Sudden Spoiling Pros: —turns ALL creatures a target player controls —split second, blocking out response spells Cons: —turns creatures into 2 toughness, which can be annoying if you can only ping them for 1 damage and not kill them (assuming that's what you want to do in the first place)
Snakeform Pros: —turns the creature GREEN until end of turn, which can take away many restrictions and open up possibilities (including 'non-color' restrictions) —you get to draw a card as an instant as well Cons: —gives the creature 1 power, which can still do damage (even as low as it may be) —it's very costly for a spell with only 1 target
Ovinize Pros: —lower mana cost than others —turns a creature into the weakest possible creature, at 0/1, which is absolutely no threat in any way on its own and can be very easily disposed of Cons: —it has no extra effects and only targets 1 creature
RobinHood3000
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Three mana, and Platinum Angel slithers its way to an insta-loss.
anytwofactors
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Considering indestructibility is a characteristic and not an ability, I don't know if snakeform affects it or not.
Enchantment_Removal
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Cantrip-ing spot removal for Blue or Green. Oh yeah!
AXER
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
If the creature was Legendary or Artifact, will it remain those types??? Those are card types not creature types, as this spell affects.
F0zzy
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
snakeform, doomblade
Zoah
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Vishlord... you are very alone in this... For me, a split card can be used by either color, and is best when used with both. This opens the door further for creativity. While a multicolored card... It forces you to use both and is automatically more color heavy. Meaning you have to count on having both on the field also.
Anyway... I'm also under the impression that a card that has a split cost such as this will satisfy any color requirement involving either possible costs. Put simply 2G/U is strictly better than 1UG
Unless your complaints are bout flavor... in which case... I can't help you.
desolation_masticore
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
No willpower save?
dragonking987
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
such a fun card.
dberry02
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love being able to stop hard to kill creatures! :D
tantallum99
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I agree with all, this card kicks ass. you don't just destroy or exile a creature. you turn him into a defenseless 1/1 snake which you can proceed to kill with any weenie creature you want. that's finesse. then you draw a card.
count_dorku
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
mr_Trickster: As I understand it, the exile-y bit of unearth goes on when it's unearthed, so snaking it won't help. I might be wrong though.
anytwofactors: Indestructible may be a characteristic, but the Comp Rules state that " is indestructible" is a static ability.
Splizer
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Turns the biggest, fiercest leviathan of destruction into a leather belt.
LordRandomness
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
The fact that this cantrips means that Snakeform + Hornet Sting makes for effective, one-card (in terms of card advantage, anyway), targeted green creature removal. That's gotta be worth something, right?
djflo
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Niv-Mizzet out, this.
Kills just about anything without hexproof/shroud.
Pipikako
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
OROCHIMARU !!
Lord_of_Gelectrodes
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"You snake!"
Majora_13
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Another use that seems to have been overlooked: If an opponent uses a spell that specifically targets fliers/a particular colour, this can be used to protect one of your own creatures too.
Player A: "I plummet your sphinx of magosi" Player B: "What, you mean this 1/1 snake?" Player A: "Dangit. Wait, how did the sphinx survive being turned into a snake? Surely he would have plummeted from the sky anyway..."
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The cantrip on this reallly really makes it. The fact it can go into mono green is neato cheato.
Demonic_Math_Tutor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Should read:
Target Sanctuary Cat boxes target creature without shroud or hexproof. Destroy that creature
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Green card advantage, nice. Also great way to get rid of brokentusk or wurmcoil engine.
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Alas, this still cannot take down Progenitus, due to his inability to be targeted by anything. That's one reason I love Sudden Spoiling so much. ^_^ But a healthy 4.5 for Snakeform and its delightful blue-green-ness.
My friend stared for a full minute when Big Bad Vigor was pinged out of the battlefield with one damage.
Also, can anyone tell me what will happen if you use this on an unearthed creature after it is unearthed?
Will it still be exiled at the end of turn when it no longer has unearth?
Just curious, as i placed this card as a sideboard on my Grix' deck to counter creatures with protection from B/R, which is rather common where I come from.
Fair point Zulp. Except you don't have to 'combine' the native colours. If it was 1GB I'd love it even more. Don't know if I'm alone in this but I cannot stand the dual- as opposed to multi-coloured cards, and can still barely bring myself to use them.
Sudden Spoiling
Pros:
—turns ALL creatures a target player controls
—split second, blocking out response spells
Cons:
—turns creatures into 2 toughness, which can be annoying if you can only ping them for 1 damage and not kill them (assuming that's what you want to do in the first place)
Snakeform
Pros:
—turns the creature GREEN until end of turn, which can take away many restrictions and open up possibilities (including 'non-color' restrictions)
—you get to draw a card as an instant as well
Cons:
—gives the creature 1 power, which can still do damage (even as low as it may be)
—it's very costly for a spell with only 1 target
Ovinize
Pros:
—lower mana cost than others
—turns a creature into the weakest possible creature, at 0/1, which is absolutely no threat in any way on its own and can be very easily disposed of
Cons:
—it has no extra effects and only targets 1 creature
For me, a split card can be used by either color, and is best when used with both. This opens the door further for creativity.
While a multicolored card... It forces you to use both and is automatically more color heavy. Meaning you have to count on having both on the field also.
Anyway... I'm also under the impression that a card that has a split cost such as this will satisfy any color requirement involving either possible costs. Put simply 2G/U is strictly better than 1UG
Unless your complaints are bout flavor... in which case... I can't help you.
anytwofactors: Indestructible may be a characteristic, but the Comp Rules state that " is indestructible" is a static ability.
Kills just about anything without hexproof/shroud.
Player A: "I plummet your sphinx of magosi"
Player B: "What, you mean this 1/1 snake?"
Player A: "Dangit. Wait, how did the sphinx survive being turned into a snake? Surely he would have plummeted from the sky anyway..."
Target Sanctuary Cat boxes target creature without shroud or hexproof. Destroy that creature