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Serpent's Gift

Multiverse ID: 249666

Serpent's Gift

Comments (23)

Lord_of_Tresserhorn
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (3 votes)
Hey, it's not too bad. Green instant speed removal that kind of reads:

"Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target creature."

Except a bit better cause it can kill shrouders/hexproofers.
TomTomat
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Can be really helpful against creatures with shroud or hexproof.
ThisisSakon
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (6 votes)
*coughcoughNecrobitecoughcough*

Seriously, dafuq wizards?
CapnShapiro
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0) (4 votes)
Should have been G or a cantrip. Either would have helped this; otherwise, it's an overcosted 1-for-2. I mean, this is green, after all, so just smash the hexproof creatures with your bigger dudes. And yeah, Necrobite.
SkyknightXi
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Venomous Breath Mk. II?
lorendorky
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Use it on your Viridian Emissary.
blindthrall
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
The serpent gave us a piece of shit for our birthdays.
marmaris74
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (3 votes)
C'mon, Wizards.
Lace with Moonglove was bad. But at least you could use it. Same goes for Necrobite. This card, though, is garbage. It could have easily cost {1}{G} (or even {G}) and not been unfair. Why do we get this?
luca_barelli
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
why make a card that is already functionally obsolete? It's not useless, but Necrobite makes this pointless.
RedAtrocitus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Rather play Ambush Viper
talcumpowder0046
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
What power creep? Zombie Goliath, Canyon Minotaur and this in the 2013 core set? :'(
LordRandomness
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Oh wow. It's Lace with Moonglove, minus a card. That's a lot worse than they usually do.
ItsJustBrenton
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of hate slathered on overcosted commons from a core set. Two stars, because as bad as it is it's a common and not horrendously unusable.
Lotsofpoopy
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0) (2 votes)
I like this card. I am a pro so I can use it to kill whatever I want.
Weevy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Is it useful? Certainly. But what I don't understand is why similar cards cost less. What I'd have like to see is it cost one mana less -or- to give it something like flashback, buyback or replicate. I would very much like to see one of the latter.
Morgaledh
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
But wow, that art. If you see this on the card, you'll know. The computer won't do it justice.

That's all I can say about it, though.
Ferlord
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Now, if it was in Blue, it'd be pretty good. However, green has a decent amount of combat tricks. Also, Necrobite was just printed, and that makes this look bad.

Saying something like "adding First Strike" is absolutely idiotic, but I think that'd be the only way a card like this would see a lot of play. Maybe making it 2GreenGreen or changing the colour to Black (2BlackBlack) would even it out a little.

It's a good thing this isn't Green though. In truth, the 3-cost is very fair, because this technically is Green's Murder. Any cheaper, and you'd need to throw in a drawback.
SlowMoRiot
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Pairs well with Trample, Rancor in particular. Wurms just may like this card.
The_Jabberwocky
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
AHH!!! Incredible art wasted on a card which is not hardly playable. Particularly because it is strictly worse than Lace with Moonglove. Anytime I see awesome art, I look for ways to use the card in my decks. Unfortunately, I have come up short on this one. If only there was a way for all of the artists to submit their artwork first and then have the best art go to the cards which will see play. I am vexed. Terribly vexed.
Secksee
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Soooo, on one hand, there is a powercreep.
On the other hand, it's a shiitcreep.
Aquillion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Terrible. The vast majority of the time, Giant Growth will not only kill their creature but save yours... and giant growth is generally a bit underpowered. It says something that they previously printed this effect on a cantrip and people only considered it mediocre.
james2c19v
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Perhaps there's a place for it in monogreen pauper commander... Don't know what else though.