Crashing Footfalls
Sorcery
Suspend 4—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Create two 4/4 green Rhino creature tokens with trample.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Special Guests
- Price
- $1.15
- EDHREC rank
- #15637
Crashing Footfalls puts two 4/4 trample rhinos onto the battlefield for zero mana — the catch is a suspend cost of three that locks the card out of most normal lines. Commanders like Quandrix, the Proof that manipulate time counters or cascade into it at instant speed make the wait irrelevant, turning this into one of the most efficient token producers in the game.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Quandrix, the Proof
Quandrix, the Proof's ability to proliferate and interact with suspended cards means Crashing Footfalls arrives ahead of schedule, and the resulting pair of 4/4 tramplers feeds Quandrix's counter-based growth engine immediately.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Modern, Crashing Footfalls is a cascade staple — Shardless Agent and Violent Outburst hit it for free, and the deck built around that interaction has been a fixture of the format for years. Legacy treats it similarly, though the raw power ceiling is lower relative to the format's threats. Commander is where the card's ceiling shifts: suspend manipulation, proliferate engines, and cascade commanders all make Crashing Footfalls a legitimate free-spell payoff rather than a build-around, and at zero mana cost it dodges most tax effects entirely. It's legal in Oathbreaker for the same reasons it works in Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.15 cheap tier
At $1.15, Crashing Footfalls sits in cheap territory despite genuine competitive play across multiple formats. That price reflects wide reprint availability, and there's no reason to expect scarcity — pick it up whenever you need it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.