Sootwalkers
Creature — Elemental Rogue
This creature can't be blocked by white creatures.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #30718
Sootwalkers enters as a 5/4 trampler for four mana whenever a land enters the battlefield tapped — a repeatable threat that snowballs fast in landfall or ramp-heavy shells. The cost is real: you need consistent tapped-land flow, and without it, you're just playing a vanilla creature.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Sootwalkers earns a slot in any deck that regularly drops fetch lands, shocks, or Cultivate-style basics — the triggers stack quickly and trample makes each token dangerous rather than just wide. Pauper is where Sootwalkers sees the most competitive daylight, fitting naturally into landfall and land-ramp strategies that already flood the board with tapped-land triggers. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage the card is legal but doesn't compete; four mana for a conditional token engine is nowhere near the power floor those formats demand.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Sootwalkers is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in. It's unlikely to appreciate unless a future Commander precon pushes landfall-token synergies into the spotlight, so grab copies for any deck that wants them now rather than banking on movement.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.