Glacial Crasher
Creature — Elemental
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
This creature can't attack unless there is a Mountain on the battlefield.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2015
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #30215
Glacial Crasher lands as a 5/5 trampler that can't be blocked by creatures without flying or islandwalk — a meaningful evasion package on a six-mana body. The cost is real: six mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature is a tough sell in Commander, where the competition at that slot wins games instead of just threatening to.
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 |
Glacial Crasher is a bulk rare in every format it's legal in, and that's the honest read. In Commander, six mana for a 5/5 with conditional evasion doesn't compete with threats that generate card advantage, close the game immediately, or protect themselves. In Pauper it isn't legal at rare, and in competitive formats like Modern or Legacy, six-mana creatures need to do something busted on entry — Glacial Crasher does not. The islandwalk clause is narrow enough that it almost never matters in non-blue matchups, which are the ones you'd most want to attack into.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Glacial Crasher is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and nothing else. There's no financial floor to worry about here; it holds zero speculative value and is unlikely to move without a dramatic rules change or a niche combo discovery.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.