Ohran Viper

Snow Creature — Snake

Whenever Ohran Viper deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Whenever Ohran Viper deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Discussion (51)

WolfishHat on Rainbow Snow

3 weeks ago

I appreciate the suggestions. So far Flooremoji the Ohran Viper has been stuck in my hand. It’s 3cmc competes with Dead of Winter, Glacial Revelation, and Blood Moon. I am debating replacing them with Icehide Golem or Boreal Druid.

Flooremoji on Rainbow Snow

3 weeks ago

You can probably cut Diamond Faerie for 1 more Glacial Rev and one mana removal like Skred :)

If your mana can support it, Frostwalk Bastion can be a great manland.

How has Ohran Viper preformed for you?

Inkmoth on Nylea, Shoot for the Stars (cEDH)

3 months ago

GrizzlyAtom: Just wanted to say that I absolutely loved the list! Safe to say you hit the nail on the head on almost all of your choices. However, I do highly recommend you make a couple of changes for the general consistency of the deck.

Cuts & Why

• Wirewood Elf : Heart Warden is strictly better if you absolutely must. Though I wouldn't waste time on a 2 cmc 1 mana dork.

• Seeker of Skybreak : Same thing as before, though considerably weaker since you NEED the dork to be out, so this is a potential dead draw or another 2 drop 1 mana dork.

• Krosan Restorer : I get the need to overload the deck with repetitive effects, but this can over saturate your deck with non impactful creatures.

• Greenweaver Druid : This is just bad, even with the cost reduction.

• Elvish Piper : With the lack of high cmc creatures, this is just a gimmicky card we wish can always run.

• Elvish Harbinger : Though being a two thanks to Nylea, top of the deck tutors aren't too great.

• Birthing Pod : Without being able to untap it, this is just a worse Eldritch Evolution .

• Sword of the Paruns ; As you said, 7 mana is too much.

• Elvish Guidance / Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip: I get why you want to run this, but it ain't worth it to run both. I'd drop the Rites over the Guidance, since you can use Arbor Elf on a forest with guidance.

• Leyline of Lifeforce : You have enough of this effect, even if this would be super awesome turn 0.

• Revive / Return to Nature / Naturalize : There are better cards for this available to us.

• Once Upon a Time : Doesn't scale too well in EDH.

Suggestions

These won't be direct swaps to the cuts and more of a series of cards that you should highly consider as I don't want to cramp your style.

• Dryad Arbor : t1 Green Sun's Zenith makes it ramp, Elvish Guidance makes it a dork (remember it's not an elf), adds one more mana with Leyline of Abundance , and all at the cost of a land swap.

• Emergence Zone : Adds the ability to set up OR win on someone elses' turn for a land swap.

• Force of Vigor / Nature's Claim : Free spell/1 drop that are way better than your current cards in these slots.

• Oakhame Adversary : Draw to get your combo pieces and an elf for your count. More often or not a 2 drop in most cEDH metas and a 1 drop in some cases for you.

• Runic Armasaur : More draw, draw from fetches and creature based combos.

• Ohran Frostfang : This card is bonkers. Turning your whole field into Ohran Viper s definitely gives you the steam you need to keep staxing it up on your way to your win con.

• Seedborn Muse : I know what you're thinking, "I barely have instants". Your commander is an indestructible digger, every turn you'd get to refill your hand.

• The Stax pieces: Go for them, you have the outlet in the command zone and you break parity with mana dorks and a cost reducer at the helm. Tangle Wire , Trinisphere . Root Maze , Manglehorn , Collector Ouphe , Null Rod , Winter Orb , Thorn of Amethyst , Sphere of Resistance and maybe Defense Grid are worth it. Hall of Gemstone :Not good because it can lock out interaction that could be needed to stop another player.

• Regal Force : You need the gas and you're going wide. Makes your Tooth and Nail better.

• Great Oak Guardian : Recognize that your wins are generated by untaps, and an instant speed board untapper is a recipe for success. It can also save your field from damage wipes and goes infinite with Temur Sabertooth . Also makes Tooth and Nail better.

• Natural Order / Eldritch Evolution :

• Carpet of Flowers : Ridiculous ramp, 100% must.

• Mox Diamond / Chrome Mox : More ramp, gets us out of the gate faster and cEDH is all about speed.

• Beast Within : Catch-all removal in monogreen. Definitely a staple.

• Regrowth : Because it's better than Revive .

• Skullwinder : Because it's better than Revive and can be repeated.

I hope this helps, I love the deck, will be keeping up with it. Final recommendation would be to use a similar categorization that I used in Yeva for your list as it helps you visualize your deck based off function and see where it is lacking.

Inkmoth on Yeva Draw-Grow

5 months ago

l13199l Thanks for sticking around! Makes me sad when green doesn't get the rep it deserves. Oakhame has been a phenomenal draw engine and has yet to cost me 4. I guess if my meta stopped playing green I'd swap Ohran Viper back in.

iggyoutpost on Ezuri, Claw of Progress

5 months ago

notes: you have a lot of small creatures that you have to waste turns on buffing, you have a lot of card draw and not a lot of ways to keep all those cards, you have a lot of small synergies with merfolk/snake, but not enough to warrant having them IMO, could be better suited more focused on winning. cuts: Trollbred Guardian , Overrun , River Sneak , Experiment One , Coiling Oracle , Patagia Viper , Triton Shorestalker , Jace's Ingenuity , Ohran Viper , Verdant Confluence , Ezuri's Predation adds: Cultivator of Blades , Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury , Triumph of the Hordes , Reliquary Tower , Rancor , Doubling Season , Awakening Zone / From Beyond , Wirewood Symbiote , Hadana's Climb  ^Flip, Sudden Substitution , Devoted Druid , Temur Sabertooth , Bramble Sovereign , Thrummingbird , Tezzeret's Gambit , Faerie Artisans , Stubborn Denial

AkaAkuma on Marisi | Everyone loves a Timmy

7 months ago

I would say 1v1 games are unfavorable for Marisi, but it's still a decent body that silences the opponent during combat. And you still force utility creatures to attack leaving opponents in difficult situations . If you want to play explosive 1v1 matches, you should look into the new Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin (just imagine with Claws of Valakut or Stoneforge Masterwork haha) or Omnath, Locus of Rage . But against regular match ups I guess Marisi stands some chance.

Perhaps with more removal and hate cards like Blind Obedience or Ohran Viper you could improve the solo experience.

But thanks for the interest! I hope I have inspired you on something

Mattio38 on Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons

7 months ago

OUT: Festering Mummy

IN: Ohran Viper

Ninokun on My snake deck (that title took me two weeks...)

8 months ago

This deck should be named "Battalion of snakes" lol. Totally awesome and deadly. My favorite card was Ohran Viper , if I block it, dead, if I take the hit, you draw a card, WTF!

Have you tried going monogreen? You could easily cast Kaseto with the help of Abundant Growth .