Glacier Godmaw
Creature — Leviathan
Trample
When this creature enters, create a Lander token. (It's an artifact with "
, 
, Sacrifice this token: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.")
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain vigilance and haste until end of turn.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Edge of Eternities
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #5954
Glacier Godmaw lands as a massive Leviathan body that puts immediate pressure on the board the turn it arrives. The cost is real — expensive mana investment — but Kenessos, Priest of Thassa cheats it into play for free, which is the reason this card exists in Commander.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa is the natural home: his ability lets you put Glacier Godmaw directly onto the battlefield without paying its mana cost, turning a prohibitively expensive Leviathan into a free threat whenever you scry.
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep cares about Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents, so Glacier Godmaw slots straight into her tribal payoff package as one of the bigger bodies she can cheat or reward.
Titania, Nature's Force
Titania, Nature's Force generates Forest tokens when Forests enter and cares about Elementals, but she also puts Leviathan and sea-creature payoffs on the table — Glacier Godmaw fills the big-body role in her sea-creature suite.
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle builds around enormous sea creatures, and Glacier Godmaw is exactly the kind of massive Leviathan that fits the theme and threatens to close games once Arixmethes wakes up.
Sin, Spira's Punishment
Sin, Spira's Punishment leans into enormous, splashy creatures with high power, and Glacier Godmaw's sheer size makes it a natural fit for a deck built around the biggest threats the game has to offer.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Glacier Godmaw is legal in every major constructed format but sees play almost exclusively in Commander, where the combination of tribal synergies, cost-reduction commanders, and the singleton rule make oversized Leviathans viable. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, a high-mana creature without an enters-the-battlefield effect or built-in protection simply doesn't survive the format's efficiency bar. Standard gives it a legal home, but the same problem applies — Glacier Godmaw needs infrastructure around it to matter, and that infrastructure exists in Commander's deep card pool. Oathbreaker is the one 60-card-adjacent format where it could occasionally appear if the right planeswalker-and-signature-spell shell supports sea creature synergies, but that's a narrow window.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Glacier Godmaw is firmly bulk — you're buying a playset for under a dollar. Bulk rares with narrow tribal applications don't tend to spike unless a new commander pushes the tribe into relevance, so treat this as a cheap pickup for the decks that want it, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.