Dross Crocodile Black Card in Magic the Gathering

Video Transcript

"MIKE LOPEZ: Hi. I'm Mike Lopez with Expert Village, and today we're going to be discussing the black color from "Magic: The Gathering". And here we have "Dross Crocodile". "Dross Crocodile" is a very powerful card. It has been around as a powerful utility card and has been around since the beta of Magic. And here we have, it's in the 10th edition in the basic block and it is a common. It's a creature "Zombie Crocodile," which means it gets benefits for being a zombie and for being a crocodile if you have cards that boosts even the creature-type zombie or the creature-type crocodile. Now, as we see, Dross Crocodile, to play him costs you 3 and a black, which means its converted mana cost is 4. It is a 5/1 creature. That's right. It is a 5/1 creature. So instead of getting a 3/3 creature, you're getting a 5/1 creature, or instead of getting a 2/2 creature with an interesting ability, you're going to get a 5/1 creature, and this is what is known as a "big bulge attacker". Once again, he doesn't have much defense and he has 5 offense, which means you would play him as a constant attacker or as a blocker if it is late-game and your opponent has creatures that are bigger than 4/4s or even 5/5s because this creature will kill them."