Marsh Crocodile
Creature — Crocodile
When this creature enters, return a blue or black creature you control to its owner's hand.
When this creature enters, each player discards a card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Salvat 2005
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #28639
Marsh Crocodile lands a 3/3 body and forces every opponent to discard a card the moment it enters — that's three cards stripped across the table for four mana in blue-black. The cost is symmetrical hand disruption that includes you, so it needs a shell that either empties its own hand fast or rewards discarding.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Marsh Crocodile punches above its weight — one card that makes three opponents each discard a card is a lot of disruption for four mana, and the 3/3 body is incidental upside. It belongs in dedicated discard or reanimator strategies rather than as a generic inclusion, because the symmetric discard clause means you need a reason to want your own card in the graveyard. In Legacy and Vintage, it's legal but irrelevant — those formats demand more efficient disruption at lower mana costs, and a four-mana sorcery-speed discard effect doesn't compete. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander calculus at a smaller table, where forcing two opponents to discard is still a reasonable rate if your planeswalker rewards it.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Marsh Crocodile has no current price data on file, which typically signals a bulk rare — expect to find it in the $0.25–$0.50 range in most stores or trade binders. At that price it's a low-risk pickup for any discard-matters build.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.