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Serpent of Yawning Depths

Enchantment Creature — Serpent4 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

Evasion built as a private club: your Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents can only be walled off by other members of the same four tribes, which almost nobody else runs. In practice that means a 6/6 body that shrugs past most ground defense while dragging every other big fish in your pool through the same gap. The tribal restriction is the design's defining tension: the effect is enormous, but it is deliberately keyed to a creature-type cluster narrow enough that its payoff scales only inside a deck committed to the theme. A single serpent gets the anthem too, so the card is never dead, but its ceiling is a board of leviathans none of which the opponent can chump. That the granting engine is itself one of the tribes it protects is a tidy piece of self-inclusion: the enchantment creature validates the exact strategy it enables. It belongs to a small family of unblockable-by-restriction effects that gate evasion behind a shared keyword or type rather than handing it out flatly, trading universal utility for a payoff that rewards concentration. Outside a sea-monster shell it is a fair-rate blue fatty; inside one it is the reason the archetype has a finisher instead of just a pile of expensive bodies.

Serpent of Yawning Depths (thb)
THB · #291rare
Pricing
Normal: $8.80
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents you control can't be blocked except by Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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