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Kaya, Geist Hunter

Legendary Planeswalker — Kaya

+1: Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature token you control.
−2: Until end of turn, if one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.
−6: Exile all cards from all graveyards, then create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying for each card exiled this way.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{W}{B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Innistrad: Crimson Vow
Price
$2.21
EDHREC rank
#4415
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Kaya, Geist Hunter card art
Kaya, Geist Hunter's static ability doubles every token created on your turn — permanents, spirits, whatever — before you ever activate a loyalty ability, which makes the floor on a three-mana planeswalker absurdly high. Token engines like Twilight Drover become exponentially more threatening overnight, and Zurgo Stormrender decks treat her as a second copy of the effect they most want to stack.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zurgo Stormrender

Zurgo Stormrender

40.8% of decks · synergy 0.37

Zurgo Stormrender already pushes opponents to sacrifice permanents and rewards you with spirit tokens, and Kaya, Geist Hunter's doubling effect means every trigger produces twice the pressure — 41% of Zurgo decks include her for exactly that reason.

02
King of the Oathbreakers

King of the Oathbreakers

36.7% of decks · synergy 0.34

King of the Oathbreakers cares about Rogues and token generation in Esper shells, and Kaya, Geist Hunter plugs directly into that by doubling the spirit tokens the King produces from its own triggers.

03
Thalisse, Reverent Medium

Thalisse, Reverent Medium

33.8% of decks · synergy 0.31

Thalisse, Reverent Medium creates a spirit at end of turn for each token made that turn, so Kaya, Geist Hunter's doubling effectively doubles Thalisse's own payoff — the two cards stack multiplicatively rather than additively.

04

Soundwave, Sonic Spy

24.3% of decks · synergy 0.24

Soundwave, Sonic Spy generates tokens whenever opponents cast spells you share a type with, and Kaya, Geist Hunter turns each of those incidental tokens into two, compounding an already passive engine.

05
Neriv, Crackling Vanguard

Neriv, Crackling Vanguard

23.3% of decks · synergy 0.19

Neriv, Crackling Vanguard cares about spirit tokens specifically, and Kaya, Geist Hunter is one of the cleanest ways to double the output of that engine without adding creatures to the board herself.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the clear home for Kaya, Geist Hunter — the token-doubling static ability scales with the sheer volume of triggers a 100-card singleton game generates, and three mana is an easy ask in a format that runs 37+ lands. In Oathbreaker she occupies the planeswalker slot herself, which is a fine fit given her low cost and immediate board relevance. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, she's technically legal but faces a brutal bar: token doublers at three mana need to either win the game on the spot or protect themselves, and Kaya, Geist Hunter does neither reliably against interaction-dense fields. Legacy and Vintage don't want her at all — the pace of those formats makes a three-loyalty planeswalker without an immediate game-winning effect a liability.

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Price Context

Current price

$2.21 cheap tier

At $2.21, Kaya, Geist Hunter sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough to slot into any token deck without a second thought, and the price reflects genuine demand rather than bulk obscurity. She won't spike dramatically unless a pushed token-doubling commander redefines the archetype, but she's unlikely to dip much lower either given her consistent 40%+ inclusion in her best shells.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.