Calcite Snapper
Creature — Turtle
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Worldwake
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #21568
Calcite Snapper is a 1/4 shroud wall that can flip to 4/1 whenever you play a land — resilient to targeted removal and capable of punching through when the board stalls. The narrow use case keeps it out of most lists, but Archelos, Lagoon Mystic decks specifically want this kind of landfall-triggered, protection-stapled body.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic cares about permanents entering tapped or untapped, and Calcite Snapper's shroud makes it a sticky creature that sticks around to keep triggering that engine turn after turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Calcite Snapper sees essentially no play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — a 1/4 for four mana with a situational stat-swap is nowhere near competitive enough for those formats. Pauper is its most plausible non-Commander home, where shroud still carries some weight and creature quality bars are lower, but even there it struggles to find a slot. In Commander, it lands almost exclusively in Archelos, Lagoon Mystic decks, where the landfall trigger and built-in protection have just enough synergy to justify the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Calcite Snapper is deep bulk — buy a copy without thinking about it if Archelos is your commander. Demand is too narrow for this to move off the floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.