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Kheru Goldkeeper

Creature — Dragon

Flying
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard during your turn, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Renew — {2}{B}{G}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put two +1/+1 counters and a flying counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{B}{G}{U}
Color identity
BGU
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Tarkir: Dragonstorm
Price
$0.34
EDHREC rank
#4531
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Kheru Goldkeeper card art
Kheru Goldkeeper gives you a repeatable discard outlet that replaces itself with Treasure, and when paired with Tortured Existence, that discard becomes a recursive engine rather than a cost. The catch is that the payoff depends entirely on how much your deck wants to churn through the graveyard — in a vacuum it's a 2/2 for three that does nothing; in Teval, the Balanced Scale it's a cornerstone.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Teval, the Balanced Scale

Teval, the Balanced Scale

53.7% of decks · synergy 0.41

Teval, the Balanced Scale rewards you for having exactly equal card counts in hand and graveyard, and Kheru Goldkeeper's discard-for-Treasure loop gives you fine-grained control over that balance on demand.

02
Teval, Arbiter of Virtue

Teval, Arbiter of Virtue

50.1% of decks · synergy 0.37

Teval, Arbiter of Virtue cares about life totals and incremental value generation, and Kheru Goldkeeper feeds both axes — Treasure for mana, and a graveyard bin that Teval can exploit turn after turn.

03
Sin, Spira's Punishment

Sin, Spira's Punishment

33.2% of decks · synergy 0.20

Sin, Spira's Punishment punishes opponents for drawing and benefits from self-mill loops, making Kheru Goldkeeper's discard outlet a cheap way to fuel the graveyard while generating mana along the way.

04
Muldrotha, the Gravetide

Muldrotha, the Gravetide

30.3% of decks · synergy 0.17

Muldrotha, the Gravetide wants creatures in the graveyard to replay, and Kheru Goldkeeper's discard ability doubles as a self-mill accelerant while the Treasure it produces smooths out the heavy mana demands of a Muldrotha turn.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Kheru Goldkeeper is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander and nowhere else. In 60-card formats, a three-mana 2/2 that needs activation mana on top of its cost is far too slow to compete, and the Treasure payoff is irrelevant when you're not trying to grind through 99-card value engines. Commander is where the discard-for-Treasure loop becomes genuinely powerful — specifically in graveyard commanders that need both a reliable discard outlet and incremental mana generation in the same card slot. Outside of dedicated graveyard builds, it still sits in the bulk bin of the format.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.34 bulk tier

At $0.34, Kheru Goldkeeper sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a four-of or a throw-in without any budget consideration. Given its narrow combo-dependent appeal, that price is likely to stay flat unless a new Teval-style commander pushes graveyard discard loops into higher demand.

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