Graceful Cat
Creature — Cat
Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Amonkhet
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #24627
Graceful Cat is a 2/1 lifelinker for three mana with a one-shot life boost when it enters — the rate is simply too weak to justify a slot in any powered list. It's a Limited common that wandered into Constructed conversation, and the answer is almost always no.
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 |
Graceful Cat is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, a 2/1 lifelinker at three mana competes against Soul Warden, Essence Warden, and a dozen other life-gain enablers that cost one mana and trigger repeatedly. Pauper is the one format where commons get a genuine look, but even there the card does nothing proactive and dies to any removal before the lifelink matters. Across every format, Graceful Cat occupies the bottom tier of cat tribal support and gets outclassed before it hits the battlefield.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Graceful Cat is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills out a draft chaff box. That price won't move; there's no competitive demand applying upward pressure, and it has no scarcity angle to hold even bulk-rare territory.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.