Skittering Cicada
Skittering Cicada: Creature - Insect, Commander Masters. Flash. You may cast colorless spells as though they had flash. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Creature - Insect
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Power / toughness
- 2/2
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Commander Masters (CMM)
- Released
- 2023-08-04
- Collector number
- 717
- Artist
- Denis Zhbankov
- Commander rank
- 3,322 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flash
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About Skittering Cicada
Skittering Cicada is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless creature from Commander Masters (CMM), a Masters set released in August 2023. It is collector number 717 in that set, with art by Denis Zhbankov. It costs {3} (three generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 2/2 creature. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Commander Masters is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $12.67 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $12.67 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Skittering Cicada by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Skittering Cicada
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Commander Masters (CMM) #750 | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Three official rulings apply to Skittering Cicada, newest first.
- 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.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Skittering Cicada is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.