Frilled Sandwalla
Creature — Lizard
: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Hour of Devastation
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #28499
Frilled Sandwalla is a 1/1 for one green mana that can pump itself to a 3/3 by discarding a card — a fine rate on paper, but the discard cost makes it a liability in almost every context. Unless your deck specifically rewards emptying your hand or pitching cards, there are better uses for a green slot.
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 |
Frilled Sandwalla is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no play in any of them. In competitive formats like Legacy and Vintage, a 1/1 that needs to discard to become relevant simply doesn't clear the bar. Pauper is its most plausible home — cheap creatures matter there — but even at common, greens one-drops have far stronger options. In Commander, Frilled Sandwalla is too low-impact to justify the slot unless you're building around a wheel or discard-matters theme, and even then it's well down the priority list.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Frilled Sandwalla sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pull from a draft chaff pile rather than seek out. That price reflects demand accurately, and there's no meaningful scenario where it climbs.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.