Crocodile

Crocodile is a creature type used for large aquatic reptile predators found in sluggish waters and swamps of the tropics. They appear in black, blue or green. The first creature to bear the type was Sandbar Crocodile in Mirage.

Naming issues

The correct term for this subtype would have been "crocodilians", including the alligator, caiman, crocodile, and gharial families. Alligators have wider and shorter heads than crocodiles. Rootwater Alligator was printed with the subtype Alligator, but for gaming reasons (tribal) this was changed to Crocodile in the Grand Creature Type Update. Gharials (like Grayscaled Gharial and Algae Gharial) are a species of crocodilians with long, slender snouts.

Storyline

Crocodiles are found on:

• Alara: on the shard of Jund, the viashino possess a crocodilian form. After the Conflux the Viashiono of Jund were confronted by their primitive, beastly, counterparts on Naya.
• Dominaria
• Kaladesh
• Kamigawa: Kakkazan was a spirit in the shape of an upright crocodile with ruby colored scales.
• Mirrodin
• Ravnica
• Zendikar
• Tarkir: Crocodiles are naturally found in the Gurmag Swamp. The Sultai Brood keeps both living and undead crocodiles as guard dogs for their jungle palaces. This is depicted in Dead Drop , Death Frenzy , Kheru Dreadmaw , and Grim Contest

Notable crocodiles

• Emperor Crocodile — This crocodile has a strong power/toughness ratio (5/5) compared to it's mana cost, . The only downside of this creature is that it must be sacrificed if it's the only creature you control.

Trivia

• Marsh Crocodile — The only multicolored crocodile.
• Dross Crocodile and Kheru Dreadmaw — The 2 only Zombie crocodiles.
• Skeletal Crocodile — The only Skeleton crocodile.
• The Crocanura is a mutant Crocodile Frog