Kavu Howler
Creature — Kavu
When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Kavu cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Apocalypse
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #27829
Kavu Howler enters as a 4/5 and immediately draws you four cards — that's a substantial body and a hand refill stapled together for six mana. The cost is real, but the rate is legitimate in any green deck that wants to rebuild after a board wipe or push through to a late-game threat.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Kavu Howler lives almost entirely in Commander, where six-mana sorcery-speed creatures are acceptable and four cards drawn off a single ETB is a genuine event. It's technically legal in Legacy and Vintage, but those formats move too fast and too efficiently for a six-mana do-nothing-until-your-next-turn threat to see the table. Commander is the only format where the math works — big green decks, Elf tribal, and stompy shells that want to gas up in the midgame will get full value out of it.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Kavu Howler is deep bulk — you're picking it up for pennies out of a common box or as a throw-in. Bulk rares with narrow applications tend to stay at this price floor indefinitely, so there's no reason to hesitate on acquiring copies.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.