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Sewer Crocodile

Creature — Crocodile5 generic manaBlue mana

A 4/6 for six mana is a body built to trade up and clog the ground, not to swing a race, which is the tell for what this card actually wants to do: sit in a self-mill or graveyard-value shell and turn its own filled bin into a payoff. The evasion ability costs 3 generic manaBlue mana at face, a steep tax for a single unblocked attack, but the discount rewrites the math once five or more mana values pile up in your graveyard: it drops to a single blue, and the fat blocker becomes a repeatable, cheap-to-unblock clock. That conditional cost reduction is the whole design argument. Counting mana values rather than raw card count pushes the deckbuilder toward a graveyard seeded with a spread of costs instead of a pile of one-drops, rewarding variety over volume. Left in a vacuum the crocodile is an overcosted wall; give it a well-stocked yard and it converts a defensive stat line into inevitability, on a frame big enough to survive most combat math. It is a payoff disguised as a fatty: inert until the surrounding engine switches it on, then reliably unblockable for one mana every turn thereafter.

Sewer Crocodile (snc)
SNC · #60common
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
Foil: $0.31
Oracle Text

Rules text

3 generic manaBlue mana: This creature can't be blocked this turn. This ability costs 3 generic mana less to activate if there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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