Beast-Kin Ranger
Creature — Elf Ranger
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Foundations
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #15251
Beast-Kin Ranger gives your entire team trample for one green mana — permanent grant, not a combat trick. At one mana for a board-wide evasion upgrade, it's one of the most efficient trample enablers in the game.
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 |
In Commander, Beast-Kin Ranger slots cleanly into any green go-wide or +1/+1 counter deck that wants to convert power into damage through blockers. Competitive non-Commander formats have more precise tools and faster clocks, so Beast-Kin Ranger rarely appears there. In Pauper, the card is legal and the price is right, but the format's creature density makes a 2/2 body for one mana without immediate impact hard to justify. Commander remains the format where a one-mana trample anthem generates the most value, especially on a creature that can be flickered or recurred.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Beast-Kin Ranger is deep bulk — pick it up in any common box without thinking twice. Bulk commons with narrow but real utility tend to stay flat, so there's no meaningful price risk buying a playset.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.