Karplusan Strider
Creature — Yeti
This creature can't be the target of blue or black spells.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Tenth Edition
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #29664
Karplusan Strider enters as a 3/3 hexproof for four mana and immediately shuts off triggered abilities for every opponent as long as it's on the board. The rate is mediocre and the effect is narrow, so this only earns a slot when your meta is drowning in triggered-ability value engines.
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 |
Karplusan Strider is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive constructed formats will never touch it — a four-mana 3/3 with a situational static effect doesn't clear the bar in Legacy or Modern. In Commander it has a niche role as a hexproof body that passively hoses triggered abilities from opponents, which matters most against commanders like Atraxa, Praetors' Voice or Nekusar, the Mindrazer whose entire engine runs on triggers. Even there, Karplusan Strider competes with more flexible hate pieces that don't cost four mana for a 3/3, so it only shows up in lists specifically tuned to punish trigger-heavy pods.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Karplusan Strider is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. That price is stable because demand is essentially zero, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.