Kemba's Skyguard
Creature — Cat Knight
Flying
When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Scars of Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #21993
Kemba's Skyguard enters with a lifelink flyer and a life payment baked into the cast — two bodies' worth of keywords for two mana, but only if you're in a deck that cares about the lifegain trigger or needs cheap evasion to carry equipment. Outside that narrow context, a 2/1 flyer for 1W with a minor life bump is just not good enough for competitive Commander tables.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Kemba's Skyguard is a pauper-legal common, and that's the one format where it's worth a second look — white weenie and lifegain-adjacent shells can use cheap flying bodies with upside, and the life buffer matters more when games are decided in a handful of turns. In Commander, it's too fragile and too low-impact to earn a slot outside of dedicated lifegain or equipment decks, where the lifelink and flying tags do real work. Legacy and Vintage are simply out of reach — the card doesn't approach the power floor for either format. Modern has better options at every point on the curve, so Kemba's Skyguard stays on the bench there too.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Kemba's Skyguard is deep bulk — a bulk bin staple that costs less than a sleeve. There's no price pressure pushing it up, so expect it to stay at the floor indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.