Hero card

Rottenmouth Viper

Creature – Elemental Snake

PayoffThe more of what it needs is on the battlefield, the stronger it gets: the deck has to feed it a lot

Needs: Big Mana

Gives: Drain, -1/-1 counter (Blight), Attack Triggers

In 5% of today's winning lists

Build a deck with Rottenmouth Viper as the hero

Makes it work

Gene Pollinator · Greedy Freebooter · The Sackville-Bagginses · The Misty Mountains Cold · Goldvein Hydra

Benefits from it

Obsessive Pursuit

Winning decks play them together

Callous Inspector · Deadly Precision · Fanatical Offering · Lively Dirge · Mutagen Man, Living Ooze · Umbral Collar Zealot · Biotech Specialist · Stir Up Trouble

Use instead if you don't have it

Panicked Altisaur · Koh, the Face Stealer · Massacre Wurm · Abyssal Gorestalker · Chitin Gravestalker · The Masters of Evil

Winning decks that play it

Jund Aggro (2)

Cards in the meta that answer it

Countersculpt (Azorius Control) · Get Lost (Azorius Control) · Inevitable Defeat (4-Color Control) · Bitter Triumph (Dimir Aggro)