Basking Capybara
Creature — Capybara
Descend 4 — This creature gets +3/+0 as long as there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #22103
Basking Capybara is a 3/3 for three mana with a landfall trigger that gives it +1/+1 until end of turn — reasonable stats, zero text worth building around. It's a filler creature that earns a slot in exactly zero competitive lists.
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 |
Basking Capybara is legal everywhere but relevant nowhere. In Commander, a vanilla-adjacent 3/3 at three mana competes with a deep bench of landfall creatures that actually close games or generate card advantage. Constructed formats like Standard and Pioneer have access to better three-drops in essentially every green archetype, and Pauper's commons pool offers stronger rate creatures at the same cost. The capybara doesn't break through in any 60-card format either — a modest size bonus on landfall doesn't compensate for the absence of keywords or a meaningful enters-the-battlefield effect.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Basking Capybara is deep bulk — the kind of card that moves in trade binders only by accident. Bulk floor cards like this rarely recover value without a competitive breakout that isn't remotely on the horizon here.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.