Cold-Water Snapper
Creature — Turtle
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #21511
Cold-Water Snapper enters the battlefield and taps all permanents your opponents control — on a 7/7 Hexproof body for seven mana, that's a board-freezing threat they can't easily interact with. The cost is steep, but Archelos, Lagoon Mystic decks run it precisely because keeping things tapped is the whole game plan.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic wants permanents entering tapped, and Cold-Water Snapper delivers a full board-wide tap on arrival — threatening lethal with Archelos's lockout effect the turn it lands.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Cold-Water Snapper is a Commander card through and through — the enter-the-battlefield tap effect is most punishing in a multiplayer game where you're freezing three opponents' boards simultaneously. In Pauper it's legal but irrelevant; seven mana for a tempo play doesn't compete in a format that ends games faster. Modern and Legacy have no interest: the effect isn't broken enough to justify the cost when efficient counters and removal are everywhere. Stick to Commander, and specifically to decks that can exploit the tapped state rather than just treating it as a one-shot Time Walk.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Cold-Water Snapper is bulk — you're picking this out of a common box, not a binder. Bulk uncommons with narrow homes don't typically climb, so treat it as a cheap, stable pickup for the one or two decks that actually want it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.