Sewer Crocodile
Creature — Crocodile
: This creature can't be blocked this turn. This ability costs less to activate if there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #26181
Sewer Crocodile is a 5/4 for five mana that gets +1/+1 for each card in all graveyards — a potentially massive body that costs nothing beyond its mana and requires zero setup to grow. The catch is that five mana for a vanilla-style creature is a steep ask in any competitive context, and the graveyard count is a shared resource you don't control.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sewer Crocodile is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in almost none of them. In Commander, graveyard counts climb fast — a four-player game with any self-mill present can push this into 10/9 or larger territory by midgame, which makes it a plausible threat in dedicated graveyard or mill shells. In Pauper, five mana for a creature with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no evasion is simply too slow; the format's efficient removal and tempo make this unplayable. Everywhere else, the competition from cheaper, more reliable threats makes Sewer Crocodile a non-starter.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Sewer Crocodile is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. There's no trajectory here that changes that; this is a card you pick out of a dollar box when you specifically need a graveyard-scaling threat on a shoestring budget.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.