Jokulmorder
Creature — Leviathan
Trample
This creature enters tapped.
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice five lands.
This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
Whenever you play an Island, you may untap this creature.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Coldsnap
- Price
- $0.47
- EDHREC rank
- #23653
Jokulmorder is a 12/12 trampler for five mana — one of the most efficient stat blocks in the game — but it destroys a land you control every upkeep and enters tapped unless you sacrifice five lands on the spot. The land destruction clause is a real cost, not a flavor tax, and it makes Jokulmorder a build-around rather than a free inclusion.
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 |
Jokulmorder is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — but it's essentially a Commander card in practice. In Legacy and Vintage the five-mana floor and mandatory land sacrifice make it unplayable against the tempo those formats demand. Modern has no meaningful home for it either; five mana for a creature that costs you lands every upkeep doesn't compete with what that format's midrange and combo decks are doing. Commander is where Jokulmorder actually functions: the singleton format rewards build-around payoffs, the games go long enough to recoup land losses, and commanders like The Gitrog Monster or Titania, Protector of Argoth turn the sacrifice clause from a drawback into a trigger engine.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.47 bulk tier
At $0.47, Jokulmorder is deep bulk — the price reflects the narrow conditions required to run it well, not the card's ceiling in the right shell. It's a stable bulk rare with no reprint pressure and no spike trajectory; buy it for the deck, not the binder.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.