River Serpent
Creature — Serpent
Mana cost: {5}{U}
How we read this card
This creature can't attack unless there are five or more cards in your graveyard.
static —
Cycling {U}
Causes: nothing.
Cares about: a card in a graveyard.
Works well with
hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this.
- Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put River Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
- Kethek, Crucible Goliath — Kethek, Crucible Goliath can put River Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
- Polymorph — Polymorph can put River Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
- Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put River Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
- Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put River Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
- Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put River Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
- Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put River Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
- Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put River Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
- Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put River Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
- Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put River Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
- Mass Polymorph — Mass Polymorph can put River Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
12 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.
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — When River Serpent is in the graveyard, Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring it back
- Transplant Theorist — When River Serpent is in the graveyard, Transplant Theorist can bring it back
- Heart-Shaped Herb — When River Serpent is in the graveyard, Heart-Shaped Herb can bring it back
- Wayward Angel — River Serpent fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
- Rescue from the Underworld — When River Serpent is in the graveyard, Rescue from the Underworld can bring it back
- Victimize — When River Serpent is in the graveyard, Victimize can bring it back
- Bound // Determined — When River Serpent is in the graveyard, Bound // Determined can bring it back
- Enlightened Confidant — When River Serpent is in the graveyard, Enlightened Confidant can bring it back
- Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — When River Serpent is in the graveyard, Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern can bring it back
- Aerith, Last Ancient — When River Serpent is in the graveyard, Aerith, Last Ancient can bring it back
- Sage's Row Denizen — Sage's Row Denizen fills your graveyard toward the 5 or more cards River Serpent needs
- Screaming Swarm — Screaming Swarm fills your graveyard toward the 5 or more cards River Serpent needs
- Master Pakku — Master Pakku fills your graveyard toward the 5 or more cards River Serpent needs
- Cruel Witness — Cruel Witness fills your graveyard toward the 5 or more cards River Serpent needs
- Lightshell Duo — Lightshell Duo fills your graveyard toward the 5 or more cards River Serpent needs
- Exhibition Tidecaller — Exhibition Tidecaller fills your graveyard toward the 5 or more cards River Serpent needs
- Cephalid Inkmage — Cephalid Inkmage fills your graveyard toward the 5 or more cards River Serpent needs
- Sage of Mysteries — Sage of Mysteries fills your graveyard toward the 5 or more cards River Serpent needs
- Scrabbling Skullcrab — Scrabbling Skullcrab fills your graveyard toward the 5 or more cards River Serpent needs
- Selhoff Occultist — Selhoff Occultist fills your graveyard toward the 5 or more cards River Serpent needs
552 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
a creature is cast — 18,010 cards in the game can cause this (River Serpent is one).
- Bloodbond March — When River Serpent is cast, Bloodbond March brings a card back
90 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 18,448 cards in the game can cause this (River Serpent is one).
- Samwise Gamgee — When River Serpent enters, Samwise Gamgee makes a token
32 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.