Wardscale Crocodile
Creature — Crocodile
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- War of the Spark
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #25759
Wardscale Crocodile lands as a 4/3 with hexproof and ward 2, making it genuinely annoying to remove for a three-mana green creature. The floor is higher than it looks, but it's a vanilla threat with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no text beyond protection — it wins games only if it has a reason to be in the deck.
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, Wardscale Crocodile is filler unless your deck specifically rewards hexproof bodies — aura strategies like Siona, Captain of the Pyleas or Tuvasa the Sunlit want this exactly. In Pauper it's a legitimate common threat; hexproof at common is genuinely scarce, and a 4/3 that dodges most common removal is a real card in green aggro or stompy. Modern and Legacy have no interest in a 3-mana 4/3 with no immediate effect when Fatal Push and Swords to Plowshares exist on the other side of the table. Oathbreaker and Pioneer are legal but similarly uncompelling outside enchantress shells.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Wardscale Crocodile is deep bulk — pick it out of a common box rather than paying shipping for it. Bulk hexproof creatures don't appreciate; this one stays at floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.