Skyserpent Seeker
Mana Cost:
Type: Creature — Snake
Oracle Text:
Flying, deathtouch
Exhaust — {4}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal two land cards. Put those land cards onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
Power/Toughness: 1/1
Rarity: uncommon
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Aetherdrift
Price ( USD): $0.34
USD: $0.34 · EUR: €0.11
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Character Background
Skyserpent Seeker is a compact G U one-drop that pulls double duty as early aerial menace and midgame accelerator: flying plus deathtouch makes it a cheap deterrent in the air, and its one-shot Exhaust for {4} turns the creature into a two-land ramp that also grants a +1/+1 counter. That profile best supports ramp/value and midrange strategies, and it slots cleanly into landfall or land-combo decks (it cheats lands into play for cards like Lotus Cobra, Field of the Dead, or Scapeshift). Deckbuilding tips: bias your list toward a higher land count, include blue cantrips and top-deck manipulation (Ponder, Brainstorm, scry) or G/U ramp like Growth Spiral/Explore to set up which lands the Seeker will find, and consider cards that trigger on lands entering. Because the ability is a single-use, delayed payoff, protect the snake with cheap blockers or interaction so it survives to exhaust and treat it as a small defensive body that converts into reliable mana and tempo.
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