Snakeform
Commander 2015 242 • common
- Set
- Commander 2015
- Collector number
- 242
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana green mana or blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Green · Blue
- Artist
- Jim Nelson
- Market price
- $0.24
What it does
Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and becomes a green Snake with base power and toughness 1/1.
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Losing his possessions distressed him, but the lack of limbs was strangely liberating.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Snakeform was released in 2015 as part of the Commander 2015 set, a supplemental product line designed specifically for the Magic: The Gathering multiplayer format. It appeared in the Plunder the Graves deck, which utilized a graveyard-centric strategy centered around the commander Meren of Clan Nel Toth. This card was created to provide utility in that deck, offering a versatile instant-speed effect that could neutralize a threat by stripping an opponent's creature of its abilities and reducing its power and toughness to a base of one.
The card features artwork by Jim Nelson, a longtime contributor to the game known for his expressive and often dark fantasy aesthetic. His illustration for Snakeform captures the eerie, transformative nature of the spell as a creature is contorted into a serpentine state. In the context of the game's broader design, the card serves as a thematic nod to the Simic guild's biological manipulation, effectively functioning as a removal-adjacent tool that rewards players for navigating complex board states.
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