Skittering Cicada
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Commander MastersCMM · #717
- Card type
- Creature — Insect
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 11.06 € · 12.64 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
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.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Denis Zhbankov
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2023-08-04
Rulings
If the colorless spell has in its mana cost, use the value chosen for X when calculating that spell's mana value.
Skittering Cicada's last ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
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."