Sorcery
Destroy target creature. If that creature had a +1/+1 counter on it, create a 1/1 green Snake creature token.
"From your death, new life. From your loss, our profit."
—Kirada, Qarsi overseer
Card details
- Shown printing
- Khans of Tarkir (KTK)
- Artist
- Seb McKinnon
- Color identity
- Black
- Colors
- Black
- Mana value
- 6
- First released
- September 26, 2014
- Printings
- 2
- EDHREC rank
- #29979 on EDHREC
- Market price
- $0.03 (cheapest printing, updated weekly)
- Related cards
- Snake (Token)
Legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- Standard BrawlNot legal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
- GladiatorLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- Pauper CommanderLegal
- Duel CommanderLegal
- PreDHNot legal
- PremodernNot legal
- Old SchoolNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- FutureNot legal
Rulings (4)
If Rite of the Serpent resolves but the creature isn’t destroyed (perhaps because it has indestructible or it regenerated), you’ll get a Snake token if the creature has a +1/+1 counter on it.
If the creature is an illegal target as Rite of the Serpent tries to resolve, Rite of the Serpent won’t resolve and none of its effects will occur. You won’t get a Snake token.
Rite of the Serpent won’t create more than one Snake token, even if the target creature had more than one +1/+1 counter on it.
You get the Snake token no matter who controlled the target creature.
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