Krosan Constrictor
Creature — Snake
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
: Target black creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Torment
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #29162
Krosan Constrictor enters as a 4/4 for four mana and immediately strips all counters from target permanent — a body and a counter-hate effect on the same card. It's narrow enough that only decks specifically threatened by proliferate, infect, or planeswalker ultimates will want it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Krosan Constrictor earns a slot only when your meta runs meaningful counter-based threats — infect strategies, Atraxa, Praetors' Voice proliferate decks, or planeswalkers ticking toward game-ending ultimates. Pauper is its strongest home: the effect is uncommon at common rarity, the 4/4 body is above-rate for the format, and counter-based poison and infect strategies appear often enough to make the hate relevant. Legacy and Vintage are legal but effectively irrelevant for Krosan Constrictor — the format speed and competition make a four-mana 4/4 with a situational triggered ability a non-starter.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Krosan Constrictor is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than order. Price stability is a non-issue; it won't drop further, and there's no plausible demand spike that changes that.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.