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Sabertooth Cobra
Oracle Text
Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter. The player gets another poison counter at the beginning of their next upkeep unless they pay {2} before that step. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
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Character Background
Sabertooth Cobra is a straightforward but threatening poison enabler in Magic: The Gathering, best suited to aggressive or tempo-oriented decks that want to turn early combat damage into a long-term clock. A 2/2 for {2}{G} is solid enough to pressure life totals, but its real strength is that any hit forces an awkward choice: take a poison counter now, then either spend mana to delay the second one or risk falling behind on resources. In practice, that makes it excellent in a green infect-adjacent shell or any deck that can force a single connect and then protect the Cobra with tricks like Blossoming Defense, Snake Umbra, or evasive support from another color. It also pairs well with ways to clear blockers, since even one successful attack can create a recurring tax on the opponent’s mana and timing. Against slower decks, it can quietly snowball into a must-answer threat.
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Character Background
Sabertooth Cobra is a straightforward but threatening poison enabler in Magic: The Gathering, best suited to aggressive or tempo-oriented decks that want to turn early combat damage into a long-term clock. A 2/2 for {2}{G} is solid enough to pressure life totals, but its real strength is that any hit forces an awkward choice: take a poison counter now, then either spend mana to delay the second one or risk falling behind on resources. In practice, that makes it excellent in a green infect-adjacent shell or any deck that can force a single connect and then protect the Cobra with tricks like Blossoming Defense, Snake Umbra, or evasive support from another color. It also pairs well with ways to clear blockers, since even one successful attack can create a recurring tax on the opponent’s mana and timing. Against slower decks, it can quietly snowball into a must-answer threat.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-09-05 19:20:44 UTC