---
name: "Hornet Cobra"
mana_cost: "{1}{G}{G}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Creature — Snake"
colors: ["G"]
color_identity: ["G"]
keywords: ["First strike"]
set: "LEG"
set_name: "Legends"
collector_number: "190"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Sandra Everingham"
oracle_id: "4958baf3-2f5a-4087-bc14-ffee9887db1d"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/hornet-cobra-leg"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Hornet Cobra
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{G}{G}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Creature — Snake
- **Power/Toughness:** 2/1
- **Keywords:** First strike

## Oracle Text
First strike

> *"Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail."
—Rudyard Kipling, *The Jungle Books**

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Voracious Cobra](/printing/voracious-cobra-inv.md) — Creature — Snake
2. [Coiled Tinviper](/printing/coiled-tinviper-tmp.md) — Artifact Creature — Snake
3. [Viashino Spearhunter](/printing/viashino-spearhunter-m10.md) — Creature — Lizard Warrior
4. [The Cobra King](/printing/the-cobra-king-unk.md) — Legendary Creature — Snake Hawk Warrior
5. [Sabretooth Tiger](/printing/sabretooth-tiger-7ed.md) — Creature — Cat
6. [Sabertooth Wyvern](/printing/sabertooth-wyvern-exo.md) — Creature — Drake

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Legends (LEG) #190
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Sandra Everingham
- **Total Printings:** 2 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `legal` | Penny: `not_legal`