Elusive Krasis
Creature — Fish Mutant
This creature can't be blocked.
Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #15741
Elusive Krasis enters as a sizeable unblockable threat and keeps growing every time you cast a non-Human spell, making it a natural fit in evolve and +1/+1 counter shells. The Pride of Hull Clade decks run it at nearly 20% inclusion because it does exactly what those lists want without asking for any special setup.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Pride of Hull Clade
The Pride of Hull Clade rewards stacking +1/+1 counters across your board, and Elusive Krasis delivers a consistently evasive body that triggers off nearly every spell in those blue-green counter strategies — unblockable means those counters actually connect.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Elusive Krasis is legal in Commander, Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through. In 60-card formats it's too slow and too small to compete with what those formats are doing by turn three. Commander is where the unblockable clause and the open-ended counter accumulation have room to breathe — particularly in evolve builds or any Simic shell that generates counters as a byproduct of its normal game plan.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Elusive Krasis is pure bulk — grab a copy without thinking twice. Bulk commons and uncommons with niche Commander homes tend to stay at this floor indefinitely, so there's no urgency beyond just needing one.
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Sources
Mentioned
- The Pride of Hull Clade
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.