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Lightning Serpent
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
ColdsnapCSP · #88
- Card type
- Creature — Elemental Serpent
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.49 € · ★ 2.66 € · 4.50 $ · ★ 15.69 $
- Mana value
- 1
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 1
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Trample, haste This creature enters with X +1/+0 counters on it. At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- John Avon
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2006-07-21
Flavour text
Ice exploded into steam in its wake, hissing like a thousand serpents hailing their blazing master.
Rulings
If Lightning Serpent enters without X being paid because an effect puts it onto the battlefield or an effect lets you cast it without paying its mana cost, then X is 0.
