Ancient Kavu
Creature — Kavu
: This creature becomes colorless until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #30165
Ancient Kavu is a 2/2 for one red mana when all lands in play are basic — a rate that ranges from unplayable to legitimately efficient depending on the table. In multicolor metas packed with fetch-shock manabase, it's a vanilla 2/2 for R; in mono-red or basic-heavy pods, it's one of the most aggressively costed creatures available at common.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ancient Kavu is a metagame-read card, and Commander is its worst home — four-player games almost guarantee at least one opponent is running nonbasics, which blanks the conditional 2/2 body entirely. Pauper is where Ancient Kavu actually earns its slot: mono-red aggro and Stompy-adjacent decks can reliably turn it on, and a 2/2 for R at common is a real rate in that format's context. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — the competition at one mana is too stiff for a vanilla body with a condition attached.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Ancient Kavu is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a dollar box without thinking twice. That price is stable by default; there's no demand pressure to push it up, and no reprint risk to push it down.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.