Call to the Kindred
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top five cards of your library. If you do, you may put a creature card that shares a creature type with enchanted creature from among them onto the battlefield, then you put the rest of those cards on the bottom of your library in any order.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dark Ascension
- Price
- $0.79
- EDHREC rank
- #10336
Call to the Kindred turns any creature into a free tribal tutor every upkeep — the effect is genuinely powerful in a creature-heavy tribal deck. The problem is that it costs four mana, enchants a creature that can be removed, and does nothing until your next turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Call to the Kindred is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in Legacy, Modern, and Vintage ignores it entirely — four mana for a slow, removable engine doesn't register when those formats move faster and punish symmetrical vulnerability harder. Commander is the only format where it sees real play, and even there it's narrowly correct: dense tribal decks with a commander that expects to stick on the board are the only shells where the payoff justifies the setup cost. In Oathbreaker the same logic applies, though the lower life totals and faster games make it even harder to untap with the enchantment and convert a trigger into a win.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.79 bulk tier
At $0.79, Call to the Kindred sits firmly in bulk territory, which is appropriate — it's a niche tribal piece with a real upside ceiling but consistent downside floor. The price is unlikely to move meaningfully unless a tribal commander spikes in popularity and makes the card suddenly ubiquitous, so picking it up is low-risk and low-reward.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.