Pact of the Serpent
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Choose a creature type. Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of creatures they control of the chosen type.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2021-02-05
You choose the target player as you cast Pact of the Serpent, but you don't choose the creature type until the spell resolves.
- 2021-02-05
You must choose an existing creature type, such as Squirrel or Knight. You can't choose card types (e.g., artifact) or supertypes (e.g., snow).
- 2021-02-05
The value of X is based on the number of creatures the player controls of the chosen type as Pact of the Serpent resolves.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Pact of the Serpent, whatever its commander.
Every version of Pact of the Serpent
2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
- Normal
- $1.31
- Normal
- $3.36
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Pact of the Serpent — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
