Kavu Scout
Creature — Kavu Scout
Domain — This creature gets +1/+0 for each basic land type among lands you control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #27830
Kavu Scout is a 2/1 for one red mana with forestwalk — a French vanilla creature whose entire value is gated behind opponents running Forests. Outside dedicated landwalk-enablement shells, it almost never connects.
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 |
In Commander, Kavu Scout is fringe-playable in mono-green or Gruul landwalk strategies where you can guarantee Forests across the table, but even there better options exist. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — Kavu Scout has no competitive application in either format. Pauper is the closest thing to a home, where aggressive red commons matter more, but a 2/1 with conditional evasion still undersells what red one-drops can do. The card is legal in Oathbreaker by the same logic as Commander: niche at best.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Kavu Scout is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. Nothing about its play pattern suggests upward price pressure; it will sit in bulk bins indefinitely.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.