Rootwater Alligator
Creature — Crocodile
Sacrifice a Forest: Regenerate this creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Exodus
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #28900
Rootwater Alligator is a 4/2 for four mana with forestwalk — a keyword that only matters if an opponent controls a Forest, and does nothing otherwise. It's a bulk creature with no relevance outside of very narrow green-heavy metas.
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 |
Rootwater Alligator sees no meaningful play in any format where it's legal. In Commander, forestwalk is too conditional to rely on — it blanks entirely against non-green decks, and even in green-heavy metas you're paying four mana for a 4/2 with no other upside. Pauper is the only format where budget constraints lower the bar enough to consider it, but even there the card competes poorly against commons with more reliable evasion. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a vanilla-adjacent four-drop.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Rootwater Alligator is deep bulk — you're not buying it, you're finding it at the bottom of a trade binder. There's no pressure on this price in either direction; it will sit at bulk floor indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.