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Grazing Kelpie

Creature — Beast

{G/U}, Sacrifice this creature: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{G/U}
Color identity
GU
Rarity
common
Set
Eventide
Price
$0.12
EDHREC rank
#27137
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Grazing Kelpie card art
Grazing Kelpie puts a 2/3 flash body on the battlefield and lets you pull any card from any graveyard back to the bottom of its owner's library the moment it enters or leaves play — relevant in any loop that repeatedly flickers or sacrifices creatures. The catch is that the recursion effect is a may-trigger you control, which makes Grazing Kelpie a flexible piece in undying engines with Mikaeus, the Unhallowed rather than a card that does anything useful outside of a dedicated loop.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Grazing Kelpie is essentially a Commander card — the format's long games and graveyard-centric strategies are where its loop potential pays off. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but entirely outclassed; no competitive deck is spending four mana on a 2/3 when faster, cheaper options exist. Pauper is the one non-Commander format worth a mention: commons-only graveyard decks occasionally want a flash blocker that incidentally tidies up graveyards, though Grazing Kelpie never breaks into top lists there either. Stick to Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.12 bulk tier

At $0.12, Grazing Kelpie is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. The price won't move; it's a combo enabler in a niche shell, and supply is ample enough that picking up four copies costs less than a sleeve.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.