Rite of the Serpent

Rite of the Serpent

Sorcery

Mana cost: {4}{B}{B}

How we read this card

Destroy target creature. If that creature had a +1/+1 counter on it, create a 1/1 green Snake creature token.

on-cast —

on-cast — makes a token

Causes: a creature dies, create a Snake creature token, put a Snake creature token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Rite of the Serpent is one).

Rite of the Serpent puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — can bring back
  2. The Deck of Many Things — can bring back
  3. Afterlife from the Loam — can bring back
  4. Crypt Champion — can bring back
  5. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — can bring back
  6. Push // Pull — can bring back
  7. Vivien on the Hunt — can bring back
  8. Virtus's Maneuver — can bring back
  9. Dredger's Insight — can bring back
  10. Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest — can bring back

799 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Rite of the Serpent is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Rite of the Serpent:

  1. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  2. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  3. Overseer of the Damned — makes a token
  4. Shelob, Dread Weaver — hits a graveyard
  5. Ghoulish Procession — makes a token
  6. Ogre Slumlord — makes a token
  7. Minotaur, Roxxon CEO — makes a token
  8. Harvester of Souls — draws you 1 card
  9. Magus of the Bridge — exiles itself
  10. Koh, the Face Stealer — exiles it

60 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature token enters the battlefield — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Rite of the Serpent is one).

When a Snake enters thanks to Rite of the Serpent:

  1. Securitron Squadron — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Anointer Priest — gains you 1 life
  3. Nesting Dovehawk — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

a creature token is created — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Rite of the Serpent is one).

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Rite of the Serpent makes a Snake token, Staff of the Storyteller puts a story counter on itself

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Rite of the Serpent is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Rite of the Serpent:

  1. Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity — brings a card back
  2. Avatar Destiny — mills a card
  3. Blood Spatter Analysis — mills a card
  4. Shadows of the Past — scries
  5. Shriveling Rot — makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  6. Meathook Massacre II — brings a card back
  7. Ashnod's Intervention — brings a card back
  8. Missy — brings a card back
  9. Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire — brings a card back
  10. Saffi Eriksdotter — sacrifices itself

454 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Rite of the Serpent is one).

When Rite of the Serpent is cast:

  1. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  2. Cyclops Superconductor — gets +1/+1
  3. Jeskai Sage — gets +1/+1

431 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Rite of the Serpent is one).

  1. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — Rite of the Serpent puts cards into the graveyard that Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring back

443 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Rite of the Serpent is one).

When a Snake enters thanks to Rite of the Serpent:

  1. Liliana the Repentant — mills a card
  2. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — gains you 1 life
  3. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — gains you 1 life
  4. Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim — gains you 1 life
  5. Boss's Chauffeur — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

471 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.