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Cryptic Serpent

five generic manaone blue manaone blue manaCreature — SerpentPower and toughness6/5

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This spell costs one generic mana less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

It slithers through the senses, constricting consciousness and poisoning perceptions.

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Cryptic Serpent rulings

  • Cryptic Serpent's ability doesn't change its mana cost or mana value. It just reduces the cost to cast the spell.

  • A split card only counts once for Cryptic Serpent's ability, even if it's both an instant and a sorcery.

  • Cryptic Serpent's ability can't reduce its cost to less than one blue manaone blue mana.

Cryptic Serpent format legality

Constructed

  • StandardNot legal
  • PioneerLegal
  • ModernLegal
  • Future StandardNot legal

Eternal

  • LegacyLegal
  • VintageLegal
  • PauperLegal
  • PremodernNot legal
  • Old SchoolNot legal
  • Penny DreadfulNot legal

Commander

  • CommanderLegal
  • OathbreakerLegal
  • Pauper CommanderLegal
  • Duel CommanderLegal
  • PreDHNot legal

Arena & online

  • HistoricLegal
  • TimelessLegal
  • AlchemyNot legal
  • GladiatorLegal
  • BrawlLegal
  • Standard BrawlNot legal
  • Competitive BrawlLegal

Other

  • TLRNot legal

All printings of Cryptic Serpent 28

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