Skeletal Crocodile
Creature — Crocodile Skeleton
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #25665
Skeletal Crocodile is a 4/4 for five mana with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no evasion, and no relevant creature type — it does nothing a cheaper card couldn't do better. Bulk rare or not, this is a filler slot in any deck that runs it.
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 |
Skeletal Crocodile is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, a vanilla 4/4 for five mana is nowhere near the rate you need to justify the slot — the format is too powerful and too synergy-dense for a body that just sits there. Pauper is the one format where aggressive commons can occasionally punch in on rate, but even there a five-mana 4/4 with no text is too slow to matter. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Skeletal Crocodile is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in trade binders by accident. There is no demand driver that would move this price, so treat it as a throw-in at best.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.