Hooded Kavu
Creature — Kavu
: This creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #29408
Hooded Kavu is a 2/2 for two mana with a kicker cost that pumps it to a 3/3 and grants fear — passable stats with conditional evasion, but nothing you'd prioritize. It does exactly what it says and no more, which in most formats is not enough.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hooded Kavu is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play in essentially none of them. In Pauper, the format where vanilla and near-vanilla creatures get the hardest look, a two-mana 2/2 with an expensive kicker just doesn't clear the bar when better two-drops exist. Legacy and Vintage ignore it entirely. Commander is where Hooded Kavu theoretically finds a home in Jund or Gruul Kavu tribal builds, but even there it competes with more impactful Kavu options and rarely makes the cut.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Hooded Kavu sits firmly in bulk territory and will stay there — demand is too narrow to move the needle. Pick it up for a tribal Kavu build if you need the slot, but don't expect the price to mean anything either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.