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Skittering Cicada

First printed in Commander Masters (2023)

All 2 prints

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  • Commander Masters (CMM) #717, 2023
  • Commander Masters (CMM) #750, 2023

Skittering Cicada

Creature — Insect

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.

2/2

Illustrated by
Denis Zhbankov

Legality

Legal in
Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
Not legal in
Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl

Rulings (3)
  • 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.

Prices

MTGO price: 8.43 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 29 Oct 2026).

Combos

7 combos, the most popular first:

Commander In 36 of 6159 decks (0.6%), most in The Cabbage Merchant
Share of decks
0.6%
▼ 0.4 vs previous 30 days
2026-08-21: 0.7% 2026-08-28: 0.9% 2026-09-04: 0.9% 2026-09-11: 0.9% 2026-09-18: 1.0% 2026-09-25: 0.9% 2026-10-02: 0.5% 2026-10-09: 0.6% 2026-10-16: 0.5% 2026-10-23: 0.8%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
36
36 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
26%
4 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
The Cabbage Merchant 0.3% 95%
Zhulodok, Void Gorger 0.2% 90%
Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff 0.1% 11%
Sami, Wildcat Captain 0.1% 67%
Karn, Legacy Reforged 0.0% 100%
Kozilek, the Great Distortion 0.0% 100%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Sol Ring100%1.0
Mana Vault97%1.1
Ancient Tomb97%1.1
Gemstone Caverns97%1.1
City of Traitors94%2.3
Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter92%37.4
Fomori Vault89%29.6
Sculpting Steel83%19.2
Emergence Zone83%2.6
Krark-Clan Ironworks81%41.3

Best win rate

DeckRecord
The Cabbage Merchant
Francesco Cammarata in Fourfold League		 2-3
40%
Sami, Wildcat Captain
Just_Ice [Sentinel] in Blast Off Gaming Whispers From The Archives cEDH Tournament!		 2-3
40%
Zhulodok, Void Gorger
Ji Chenjin in Quantum Nexus' Highlander 10K		 2-3
40%
Sami, Wildcat Captain
Just_Ice [Sentinel] in Commander Invitational Qualifier - Riddle & Rune		 2-4
33%
Zhulodok, Void Gorger
Carl in The CEDH Witching Hour		 2-4
33%
The Cabbage Merchant
PicklePaul in BAKED ZITI 4: Goldsabertooth’s NY cEDH		 2-4
33%
Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
Leonardo Tort in CCS $20,000 cEDH Invitational Qualifier #5		 1-4
20%
Zhulodok, Void Gorger
Federico Testa in Mulligan Championship Series - October w/ Guaranteed Volcanic Island		 1-4
20%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
Zhulodok, Void Gorger
Caetronius, 		1 main #20
of 23
0-3
The Cabbage Merchant
Caleb Decker, 		1 main #20
of 39
0-3
The Cabbage Merchant
Francesco Cammarata, 		1 main #6
of 19
2-3
Zhulodok, Void Gorger
Rafael Quinta Pozo, 		1 main #10
of 18
1-2
The Cabbage Merchant
Gianluca Pallhuber, 		1 main #24
of 31
0-3
The Cabbage Merchant
Anton Eisenach, 		1 main #11
of 39
1-1
Sami, Wildcat Captain
Evan G, 		1 main #12
of 19
0-1
The Cabbage Merchant
Kamal Khanboubi, 		1 main #8
of 19
1-2