Veiled Crocodile
Enchantment
When a player has no cards in hand, if this permanent is an enchantment, it becomes a 4/4 Crocodile creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.49
- EDHREC rank
- #29907
Veiled Crocodile is a 5/6 for one blue mana — but it only shows up when an opponent draws their second card in a turn, which makes it a passenger rather than a pilot. Run it only in decks that can reliably force that trigger; everywhere else it's a 1/1 Illusion that never grows up.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Veiled Crocodile lives or dies by how often opponents cycle, loot, or draw off triggers — in a four-player game that condition hits regularly enough to make a 5/6 for one mana genuinely threatening, but the lack of evasion and the condition's dependency on opponents limits the upside. Legacy and Vintage are the only other formats where it's legal, and neither has any reason to run it — a conditional 5/6 at sorcery speed is nowhere near the power floor those formats demand. Oathbreaker is legal but similarly uninterested.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.49 bulk tier
At $0.49, Veiled Crocodile is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than buy. There's no reason to expect the price to move; the card sees negligible competitive play and the casual demand ceiling is low.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.