Sandbar Crocodile
Creature — Crocodile
Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #28755
Sandbar Crocodile is a 5/5 for five mana with a cycling cost of one blue — the body is passable, but the real value is the option to trade it for a fresh card when it's not what you need. A vanilla 5/5 at five is below rate in any powered environment, so you're running this for the escape hatch, not the stats.
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 |
Sandbar Crocodile sees essentially zero competitive play in Legacy or Vintage — formats where a five-mana vanilla creature is nowhere near the power threshold. Pauper is the most realistic home, where cycling synergies and common-legal payoffs like Drake Haven or Curator of Mysteries can turn every cycled Sandbar Crocodile into a threat or a trigger. In Commander, it's a filler body at best and a flex cycling piece at worst — the only reason to sleeve it up is deep dedication to a cycling-matters build helmed by someone like Nek'sar, the Misaligned or Unpredictable Cyclone.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Sandbar Crocodile is pure bulk — it costs less than a sleeve and that price is going nowhere. There's no scarcity angle, no spike scenario, and no reason to acquire more than a single copy for any given deck.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.