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Ballynock Trapper

Creature — Kithkin Soldier

{T}: Tap target creature.
Whenever you cast a white spell, you may untap this creature.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Eventide
Price
$0.18
EDHREC rank
#17921
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Ballynock Trapper card art
Ballynock Trapper taps any creature your opponents control — for free, on your turn, as long as you have four white creatures — and can do it again for two mana when that isn't enough. The activation cost of Solitary Sanctuary notwithstanding, this is a repeatable tap effect stapled to a body, and in white creature-heavy builds that's a real rate.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Ballynock Trapper is a bulk common, which means it sees essentially no play in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern — those formats have no patience for a four-mana 2/2 with a conditional tap ability. Pauper is where it's most plausible, specifically in white weenie or token strategies that can reliably hit the four-creature threshold and leverage the tapping as a combat step lock. In Commander, Ballynock Trapper fits narrowest in go-wide white decks — Giada, Font of Hope or Linden, the Steadfast Queen style builds — where the passive trigger fires almost every turn and the two-mana backup activation covers edge cases.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.18 bulk tier

At $0.18, Ballynock Trapper is deep bulk — buy it without thinking if the deck calls for it. Don't expect the price to move; this is a narrow common with a small audience and it will stay in the bulk bin.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.