Leatherhead, Swamp Stalker
Legendary Creature — Crocodile Mutant Rogue
Trample
Leatherhead enters with a hexproof counter on her.
Whenever Leatherhead deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a counter from her. When you do, destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $1.41
- EDHREC rank
- #15319
Leatherhead, Swamp Stalker puts a repeatable, evasive threat on the board that rewards you for doing what black-green strategies already want to do — fill the graveyard and grow threats. The cost is real: it's a build-around that underperforms in shells that can't consistently feed it, and Jenova, Ancient Calamity is the clearest home for it right now.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jenova, Ancient Calamity
Jenova, Ancient Calamity's ability to copy spells and generate value off large creatures means Leatherhead, Swamp Stalker scales up fast — the more Jenova floods the board and graveyard, the bigger and more threatening Leatherhead gets as a secondary win condition.
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 |
Commander is where Leatherhead, Swamp Stalker does its best work — 100-card singleton games naturally build up graveyards over a long arc, and the multiplayer table gives it enough time to grow into a genuine threat. In 1v1 formats like Legacy or Modern, it's too slow to compete; those formats punish a creature that needs setup turns to become relevant. Pioneer and Standard are theoretically legal homes, but the graveyard synergy density required to make Leatherhead payoff competitive isn't reliably there in those card pools. Stick to Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.41 cheap tier
At $1.41, Leatherhead, Swamp Stalker sits firmly in the budget-pickup tier — low enough that slotting it into any compatible build is a no-brainer financial decision. Prices for niche build-arounds at this range tend to stay flat unless a high-profile commander breaks them out, so don't expect movement either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.