Harbor Serpent
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Magic 2012M12 · #56
- Card type
- Creature — Serpent
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.10 € · ★ 0.28 € · 0.19 $ · ★ 0.20 $
- Mana value
- 6
- Power
- 5
- Toughness
- 5
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) This creature can't attack unless there are five or more Islands on the battlefield.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Daarken
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2011-07-15
Flavour text
Like most giant monsters villagers worship as gods, it proves a fickle master.
Rulings
Harbor Serpent's abilities care about lands with the land type Island, not necessarily lands named Island.
The second ability checks how many Islands are on the battlefield (regardless of who controls them) only as attackers are declared. Once Harbor Serpent is declared as an attacker, it will continue to attack even if the number of Islands on the battlefield falls below five.
