Ophiomancer

Creature — Human Shaman

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch. (Any amount of damage that token deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Combos

• Ophiomancer + Warstorm Surge

Tokens

• Snake 1/1 B

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

RiotRunner789 on Beta Brackets Update Today

3 weeks ago

When I was first getting into Commander, I bought Braids, Cabal Minion out of a binder with the plan to make her a commander. I later found out she was banned by my playgroup.

Not actually happy she is unbanned. I'm probably going to build her now but it's going to be degenerate. Braids, Sol Ring, Dark Ritual, Ophiomancer, et cetera. It's going to work great 85% of the time and anger people 100% of the time. I'll then shelf the deck and bring it out once a year. I know I'll initially try to build her weaker but the end result in a known.

Coalition victory also seems unnecessary. The other unbans seem fine. Sway of the Stars might make it into my suspend deck. Mostly glad to hear no more change for the rest of the year.

Cynic14 on Chained to Existence

2 months ago

Ophiomancer, Reassembling Skeleton, and Haunted Dead complement Contamination.

Infernal Darkness is an additional Contamination effect.

Eloniel on Necronomicon | Teysa Karlov | Primer

6 months ago

I continued to dig for cards both old and news, that are not listed here but could fit:

• Gift of Immortality : This card has lot of potential, i think this card has been glanced over because if you're not careful you don't realize it's every end step and not only yours. Even if used on a one mana afterlife 1 fodder, in a turn rotation of a 4 players game it would already have payed for itself (4 recursion of 1 mana creatures for 3 mana). In this deck it's like a better version of Ophiomancer. Others awesome targets would be Market Gnome, Ranger-Captain of Eos, Elenda, the Dusk Rose, Hallowed Spiritkeeper, Kokusho, the Evening Star (for those that play it like me). Or can be used as a protection for sacrifice engine, a draw engine, a blood artist effect or Teysa. With flash or an ability to chose of make it comeback to your hand instead of attached to the creature i think it would be a no brainer.

• Crowded Crypt : both a ramp and a payoff cards, with Teysa and a one mana afterlife 1 fodder it's already 6 corpse counter on the Crowded Crypt, a few other sacrifice and it's a winning condition. I know it's a 3 mana ramps but it's very fitting in this deck and a ramp.

• Bartolome del Presidio: another free sacrifice engine for 2 manas, but personnally i would prefer using Warren Soultrader and Viscera Seer.

• Reliquary Monk: An interesting removal, i almost find it better than Cathar Commando since with Teysa it's a double removal. Of course the downside are the 3 mana cost that can't be splitted over time like Cathar and flash missing.

• Funeral Room / Awakening Hall: another blood artist effect, with a recursion ability later, but you already haven't included The Meathook Massacre. Personnally i'm almost at a point where i'm ready to remove Blood Artist since it's the last effect that target a single player instead of dealing damage to each opponents, it's only upside is that it also work with opponent creatures dying.

• Kambal, Profiteering Mayor: It's a mix of Corpse Knight and token making. I'm not a fan of "this ability triggers only once each turn" and "one or more token" instead of "a token". Although a lot of people include it in their lists, i have mixed feeling about this card.

• High-Society Hunter : a better Grim Haruspex since it also work for other players but still 5 manas, i would not include it.

zigkid3 on Zenith Seeker

10 months ago

Archon of Cruelty is an Archon, not a demon, fyi. Baleful Strix does not match your commander's color identity. Ophiomancer Why? Just for blockers? Maybe try Luminarch Ascension instead Yarok, the Desecrated Doesn't match your commander's color identity

I like the Ephemerate I feel like its an underrated card so bonus points for that.

Tsukimi on Getta Teysa THIS!

11 months ago

Crow_Umbra I haven't had a chance to playtest Wake the Dead yet but I have always wanted to find a good home for Inkshield so I'll have to test it and see how it plays, great suggestions as always.

Afterlife Insurance and Ophiomancer are at the top of my switch in list, as of now I'm on the side of extra fodder because the decks needs a lot to work. Your Gorgussy deck was also great inspo for some exciting group drain triggers!

Crow_Umbra on Getta Teysa THIS!

11 months ago

Thank you for reaching out Tsukimi, I hope you're well.

Teysa is a classic, and it looks like you've got a really solid foundation going so far, especially utilizing KibaAlpha's deck as a primer.

You have a decent chunk of the cards I was going to recommend either already in your deck, or in your Maybe Board. Maybe you could swap a couple of your redundant 1 or 2 drops for something like Afterlife Insurance, Bloodghast, Ophiomancer, or Warren Soultrader.

I do like the inclusion of Wake the Dead as a cheeky means of getting some of your little goons back for some more death triggers. Maybe you could consider swapping it for Inkshield? I imagine you would probably be paying a pretty similar rate with Wake the Dead, in terms of mana spent, a lot of the time. Could be a more effective means of blanking aggro damage at you, and also setting yourself up with a bunch of tokens to either dome somebody or chuck into one of your aristocrats engines. It's definitely more pricey compared to Wake the Dead.

DemonDragonJ on Mind Over Matter

11 months ago

RiotRunner789, Ophiomancer is a nice card, but I believe that I can use Black Market Connections to generate a token for blocking, if I need to do so; yes, the token does not have deathtouch, but I am not certain if I can make room in this deck for Ophiomancer.

As for the other cards, they are nice, but I again am not certain if I can find a place for them, in this deck, although I certainly do appreciate your suggestions.

RiotRunner789 on Mind Over Matter

11 months ago

Thinking of defense, Ophiomancer could work. It triggers every upkeep, so you should always have a 1/1 death touch blocker. I've found small death touchers tend to give outweighed influence when people determine attackers.

Though, it doesn't directly move your game plan forward. It's about as useful as a Propaganda or Koskun Falls.