Chocobo Kick
Sorcery
Kicker—Return a land you control to its owner's hand. (You may return a land you control to its owner's hand in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature an opponent controls. If this spell was kicked, the creature you control deals twice that much damage instead.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #6731
Chocobo Kick bounces a nonland permanent and puts a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control — tempo and growth stapled together at a low cost. In any deck running Choco, Seeker of Paradise, that combination is exactly what the engine wants, making this an auto-include rather than a flex slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Choco, Seeker of Paradise
Chocobo Kick is purpose-built for Choco, Seeker of Paradise — the bounce fuels Choco's counters-matter synergies while the +1/+1 counter advances the board state in the same motion.
Tifa Lockhart
Tifa Lockhart's combat-focused progression benefits from the free counter Chocobo Kick generates, and the bounce doubles as targeted interaction to clear blockers or tempo out a threatening permanent.
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, Chocobo Kick is a role-player in counter-accumulation strategies — not a staple outside its tribal home, but a clean two-for-one effect in the decks that want it. In competitive 1v1 formats like Pioneer and Modern, bouncing a nonland permanent is useful but Chocobo Kick competes against cheaper or more flexible options that don't require a creature to receive the counter. Pauper is the one arena where efficient tempo spells matter most, and Chocobo Kick is legal there, though its ceiling depends entirely on whether a counter-synergy shell exists in the format's metagame.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Chocobo Kick is bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that does real work inside its intended shell. Bulk rares and commons tied to specific synergy decks tend to stay at this floor, so there's no financial reason to hesitate on picking up copies.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Choco, Seeker of Paradise
- Tifa Lockhart
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.