Soulcoil Viper (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan) Light Play

Soulcoil Strike

Soulcoil Viper from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan is a compact black creature built for graveyard plans and tight sequencing. Soulcoil Viper costs {2}{B} and offers a straightforward exchange. You can tap it pay one black sacrifice it to return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter. That one use can snap a late game threat back into play where it can alter combat math or rebuild a board state.

Its role is simple and effective. Use Soulcoil Viper as a sac outlet to trigger enter the battlefield effects or to restore a key blocker or attacker. The finality counter means whatever you bring back will not reuse the loop again should it die. That constraint keeps the card balanced while still providing reliable recursion for decks that value single impactful reanimations.

Card Details:

• Mana Cost – {2}{B}
• Card Type – Creature
• Subtypes – Snake
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – {B}, {T}, Sacrifice Soulcoil Viper: 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.)
• Power / Toughness – 2/3