The Serpent Society
Deathtouch Ward—Get five poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.) Whenever another creature you control with deathtouch dies, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
How The Serpent Society decks play in EDH
The Serpent Society is a Golgari commander in black and green costing 1BG, and its legendary creature - human snake villain line shapes the whole deck around it. Sacrifice is built into the card, which pairs it with cheap recursive creatures and payoffs that trigger when something dies. The cards below are the ones The Serpent Society decks actually play most often, grouped by the job they do.
Most-played cards
20 cards · about $84.92Play rates from EDHREC. Prices from Scryfall, refreshed daily.
Ramp (2)
Card draw (3)
Removal (1)
Creatures (14)
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Grimoire generates a complete, Commander-legal The Serpent Society decklist with a written strategy, a full mana base and live prices — from the whole card pool, or only from cards you already own.
Start with The Serpent SocietyThe Serpent Society deck questions
What colours can I use in a The Serpent Society deck?
The Serpent Society has a Golgari colour identity, so every card in the deck must be black and green or colourless. That includes mana symbols in rules text, not just casting cost.
What are the best cards for The Serpent Society?
The cards played most often in The Serpent Society decks include Attercop, Vraska, the Cutting Glare, Avacyn, Angel of Horror. The full list of staples above is grouped by the job each card does, so you can see the deck's skeleton rather than just a pile of names.
How much does a The Serpent Society deck cost?
The 20 most-played cards shown above come to roughly $84.92 at current market prices. A complete 100-card build costs more, and Grimoire can generate a budget version instead if you set a price ceiling.
Can I build a The Serpent Society deck from cards I already own?
Yes. Import your collection into Grimoire and choose "my cards" when you build. The generator will only use cards you actually own, and the Missing Cards page shows what you would need to buy to finish any list.