Icecave Crasher
Creature — Beast
Trample
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Edge of Eternities
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #20812
Icecave Crasher enters as a 4/3 flier that bounces a non-Snow permanent whenever you cast a Snow spell — repeatable disruption stapled to a body that actually threatens in the air. The cost is a five-mana sorcery-speed creature in a format full of Fatal Pass and Swords to Plowshares, so it needs a dedicated Snow shell to justify the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Icecave Crasher is a niche role-player rather than a staple — Snow tribal decks helmed by commanders like Narfi, Betrayer King or Jorn, God of Winter get real mileage out of the bounce trigger, but outside that archetype it's a vanilla 4/3 flier at five mana. In competitive formats like Modern and Pioneer, Snow synergy sees occasional play but Icecave Crasher's five-mana price tag puts it well outside the curve of what those formats tolerate. Pauper is where the math gets interesting: five mana is still steep, but common-legal Snow payoffs are sparse enough that any redundant trigger source has value if a Snow aggro shell ever coalesces. Legacy and Vintage simply have no use for it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Icecave Crasher is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card itself. That price is stable by definition; bulk commons don't spike unless a competitive archetype suddenly demands four copies, and no such archetype exists for this card today.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.