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Snakeform

Instant2 generic manaGreen or Blue mana

A combat trick built on subtraction rather than addition. Most pump-and-cantrip instants in these colors hand a creature something extra; this one strips a creature down to nothing and pays you a card for the privilege. Reducing a target to a vanilla 1/1 with no abilities is a quietly broad removal-adjacent effect: it kills nothing, but it neutralizes everything for a turn, blanking an evasive attacker, a giant blocker, a creature whose abilities matter more than its body, or an activated-ability engine right as it tries to fire. The window is the whole point. At instant speed it answers a combat math problem after attacks are declared, shrinking a 6/6 to a 1/1 so a small creature trades up, or wiping the keywords off something that was about to connect for lethal. Because the transformation expires when the turn does, it never functions as permanent removal, which is the constraint that keeps a flexible answer from being an unconditional one; you are buying a single turn of safety, not a kill. The cantrip is what turns that purchase into a clean rather than a card-negative play, and the hybrid pip lets either color foot the bill without committing to both.

Snakeform (eve)
EVE · #161common
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
Foil: $1.94
Oracle Text

Rules text

Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and becomes a green Snake with base power and toughness 1/1. Draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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