Soulcoil Viper
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{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.)
What it does
Tagged as Recursion — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.
Official rulings
- 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. (2023-11-10)
- 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. (2023-11-10)
- Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant. (2023-11-10)
- 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. (2023-11-10)
- 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. (2023-11-10)
Printings & prices
Every set Soulcoil Viper has been printed in, with the art, the finishes and the market price of each — the headline price above is the cheapest of these.
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