Infernal Kirin
Legendary Creature — Kirin Spirit
Flying
Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that spell's mana value.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $2.36
- EDHREC rank
- #16265
Infernal Kirin enters as a 3/3 flying Spirit that forces each opponent to reveal and discard a card whenever you cast a Spirit spell — stapled to a body that contributes to its own trigger. The cost is four mana in black and green, which is fair only if you're already running a Spirit-dense list; outside that context, the effect is too conditional to justify the slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
King of the Oathbreakers
King of the Oathbreakers cares about Spirits entering and attacking, which means every Spirit cast off the back of that engine double-dips — triggering Infernal Kirin's discard effect while also fueling the token and power-pump lines King of the Oathbreakers wants to exploit.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Infernal Kirin is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's doing real work in exactly one of those. In Commander it finds a home specifically in Spirit tribal builds where the repeated discard trigger compounds across three opponents and a high Spirit density makes the condition trivially easy to meet. In Legacy and Vintage the card is simply outclassed — four mana for a discard-on-cast effect is nowhere near the rate those formats demand, and there are no Spirit synergies worth supporting. Modern is technically legal territory but the same rate problem applies; no competitive Modern Spirit shell is looking at Infernal Kirin. Treat it as a Commander card that happens to have a broad legal footprint.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.36 cheap tier
At $2.36, Infernal Kirin sits in the budget tier — cheap enough to include without deliberation if the deck wants it. The price reflects its narrow home: demand is almost entirely Commander players building around King of the Oathbreakers or Spirit tribal, which keeps the ceiling low.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.