Kindred Summons
Instant
Choose a creature type. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X creature cards of the chosen type, where X is the number of creatures you control of that type. Put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest of the revealed cards into your library.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2017
- Price
- $5.13
- EDHREC rank
- #2436
Kindred Summons doubles your board in one shot — every creature you control that shares a type gets a twin pulled directly from your library, all entering simultaneously. Seven mana is steep, but in any tribal deck running 20-plus creatures, this is a game-ending haymaker, and Ashling, the Limitless decks running Elementals wall-to-wall treat it as a reliable finisher.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ashling, the Limitless
Ashling, the Limitless generates Elementals faster than almost any other commander, so Kindred Summons arrives with a loaded board to copy — resolving it mid-combat or after a token dump can put 10-plus Elementals into play at once and close the game immediately.
Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients
Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients wants a wide Dragon and Spirit board to trigger its damage-dealing loop, and Kindred Summons doubles that board in a single cast — more bodies means more triggers, which chains into more bodies.
Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient incentivizes attacking with as many creatures as possible to maximize mana generation, and Kindred Summons is the perfect payoff: resolve it after a swing, flood the board with Dragons, then leverage the mana Klauth just produced to chain another spell.
Arahbo, Roar of the World
Arahbo, Roar of the World wants a critical mass of Cats to pump and swing through, and Kindred Summons is the single most explosive way to double that count — one cast can go from a handful of Cats to a full army that threatens lethal with Arahbo's buffs.
Ezuri, Renegade Leader
Ezuri, Renegade Leader needs Elves on the battlefield to fuel his overrun, and Kindred Summons turns a modest Elf board into an overwhelming one — the mana Elves you copy also accelerate your next turn, which often lets you activate Ezuri immediately after.
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 |
Kindred Summons is a Commander card through and through — the 100-card singleton format is the only context where you can reliably stock a deck with enough tribal creatures to make the spell's payoff catastrophic. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but sees no meaningful play: seven mana at sorcery speed is unplayable against fast, interaction-dense fields that will answer it before a single creature enters. Oathbreaker shares Commander's singleton construction, and tribal Oathbreaker shells can absolutely use it, though the 60-card deck means a smaller creature pool to reveal. Anywhere else, Kindred Summons is simply not legal.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Kindred Summons is hard to replace on a budget because nothing else hits every matching creature simultaneously from the library, but Finale of Devastation gets close in green tribal shells — at a lower price point, it tutors one creature and can pump your whole board at X=10, trading raw card count for targeted precision. For token-heavy tribes, Lae'zel's Acrobatics or mass-reanimation effects like Patriarch's Bidding fill a similar role by recovering a wide board rather than generating one, often for less mana and less money.
Price Context
Current price
$5.13 mid tier
At $5.13, Kindred Summons sits in the mid tier — affordable enough that it's not a barrier for most tribal builds, but not so cheap it ends up in decks where it doesn't belong. It's a niche card with a high ceiling in the right shell, and its price reflects steady, format-specific demand rather than hype.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ashling, the Limitless
- Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients
- Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
- Arahbo, Roar of the World
- Ezuri, Renegade Leader
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.