Armored Kincaller
Creature — Dinosaur
When this creature enters, you may reveal a Dinosaur card from your hand. If you do or if you control another Dinosaur, you gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #15916
Armored Kincaller enters and tutors any creature that shares a creature type with it straight to your hand — immediate card advantage stapled to a body. The cost is a five-mana 3/4 with no evasion, so it lives or dies by whether your tribe can afford that tempo.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Armored Kincaller is a Commander card through and through — tribal synergies, hand refueling, and a mid-sized body are all things that scale well in a 100-card singleton format where consistency is at a premium. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Pioneer, five mana for a 3/4 tutor that doesn't immediately affect the board is too slow against efficient threats and interaction. Pauper is where it could see fringe play, since common tribal payoffs are real and card selection is scarce at the format's power level. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Armored Kincaller is deep bulk — you're picking these out of a dollar box, not a singles case. Tribal staples rarely spike unless a new commander drives demand, so there's no meaningful price floor to worry about here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.