While its not the most powerful card ever printed, it holds a special place for meIve built up a big collection of Lurking Crocodiles in real life just because I loved the card back when it showed up in Limited
First is that some very good Elves have tap abilities outside of mana: Fauna Shaman taps to tutor up creatures, Eladamri, Korvecdal taps to cheat creatures into play, Nullmage Shepherd disenchants pesky permanents, Timberwatch Elf can grow Elves twice per turn and so on
The Five Most Expensive Cards in Magic: The Gatherings Secrets of Strixhaven *Magic: The Gathering Hot/Cold List for the Week of May 25, 2026 Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) is already turning heads as one of the best Magic: The Gathering sets in recent memory, and a big part of that excitement comes from its reintroduction of the Mystical Archive
Its a good combination of abilities that favors attacking often or using flickering
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One of Legacy decks uses the fact that Tarmos size is same everywhere to its great profit: A Sutured Ghoul having exiled a couple of Tarmogoyfs gets so fat that the opponents demise comes very soon
