Vivien's Crocodile
Creature — Crocodile Spirit
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Vivien planeswalker.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Core Set 2020
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #29590
Vivien's Crocodile is a 2/3 reach creature that lets you look at the top card of your library and cast creature or planeswalker spells from there — a modest but real card-selection engine stapled to a body. The cost is that it does nothing explosive on its own, making it a role-player rather than a finisher.
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 |
In Commander, Vivien's Crocodile earns a slot in top-of-library manipulation decks — anything with Yeva, Nature's Herald or similar commanders that reward knowing what's coming next. In Pauper, the reach body and repeatable selection are genuinely competitive at common, where card advantage at low cost is scarce. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage have enough three-drop competition that Vivien's Crocodile won't see serious play in optimized lists. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander calculus: synergistic in the right shell, irrelevant outside it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Vivien's Crocodile is deep bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not the effect. It won't appreciate, but it also costs nothing to throw into a synergy pile, which is exactly the price tier where role-players belong.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.