Flowstone Kavu
Creature — Kavu
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #27620
Flowstone Kavu puts a 3/3 body on the board that can pump its power at instant speed for one red mana, making it a credible combat trick stapled to a creature. The cost is pure inefficiency — five mana for a vanilla-statted Kavu that requires additional investment to be relevant is a tough sell in any competitive context.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Flowstone Kavu is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper, Oathbreaker, and Vintage, but format legality and format playability are different things. In Pauper, where commons compete on raw efficiency, a five-mana 3/3 with a mana-sink pump is too slow against the format's aggressive and controlling staples. In Commander, Flowstone Kavu occasionally surfaces in Kavu tribal lists or Jund stompy builds that want bodies with combat upside, but it's firmly a budget filler slot rather than a deliberate inclusion. Legacy and Vintage ignore it entirely.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Flowstone Kavu is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a common box and rarely moves. There's no trajectory that makes this a meaningful pickup; buy it if you need the slot and don't expect the price to matter either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.