Silburlind Snapper
Creature — Turtle
This creature can't attack unless you've cast a noncreature spell this turn.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #26356
Silburlind Snapper is a 5/5 hexproof creature for seven mana — a defensive body that dodges targeted removal but demands too much investment for what it delivers. Seven mana for a vanilla-plus stat block with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no evasion is a poor rate in any powered environment.
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 |
Silburlind Snapper is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in almost none of them. In Pauper it has the most plausible home — hexproof is a real keyword and commons-only pools are shallow — but seven mana is still a steep ask for a format that closes games quickly. In Commander, the card's hexproof prevents it from being targeted by your own auras or equipment if you're running a Voltron strategy, which limits its upside in the decks most likely to want a big hexproof creature. Across competitive formats like Modern and Legacy, it simply doesn't exist as a consideration.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Silburlind Snapper is deep bulk — floor pricing with no realistic pressure to rise. Nothing about its mechanics or demand profile suggests that changes.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.