Skittering Cicada
- Mana cost
- {3}
- Type
- Creature — Insect
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 2
- Set
- Commander Masters #717 (rare)
- Price
- $11.97 USD
Flash
You may cast colorless spells as though they had flash.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, until end of turn, this creature gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is that spell's mana value.
Skittering Cicada has 2 printings, first in Commander Masters (2023). EDHREC ranks it #3,299 among Commander cards. It appears most in Zhulodok, Void Gorger decks (15,682 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Skittering Cicada
- Eldrazi Unbound - Commander Masters, led by Zhulodok, Void Gorger
Commanders that run Skittering Cicada most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Zhulodok, Void Gorger: 15,682 decks
- Ulalek, Fused Atrocity: 9,073 decks
- Ultima, Origin of Oblivion: 3,983 decks
- Kozilek, the Great Distortion: 1,974 decks
- Omnath, Locus of the Void: 1,262 decks
- Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer: 1,194 decks
- Molecule Man: 1,052 decks
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate: 859 decks
Often played with Skittering Cicada
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If the colorless spell has {X} in its mana cost, use the value chosen for X when calculating that spell's mana value.
- : Skittering Cicada's second ability applies only to casting spells. It does not, for example, change when you may activate abilities that can be activated "only as a sorcery."
- : Skittering Cicada's last ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.