Kingfisher
Creature — Bird
Flying
When this creature dies, draw a card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Urza's Destiny
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #27163
Kingfisher is a 2/2 flying creature for four mana — a rate so far below the curve that it sees essentially no competitive play. There is no shell in Commander or any other format where a vanilla 2/2 flyer at four mana earns a slot.
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 |
Kingfisher is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality is not relevance. In Pauper, where commons are the floor and efficiency is everything, a 2/2 flyer for four mana cannot compete with options like Aven Riftwatcher or even Wind Drake. In Legacy and Vintage, the card simply does not exist as a consideration. Commander is the one format where underpowered creatures occasionally sneak in on theme or tribal grounds, but Kingfisher has no tribal tag, no enters-the-battlefield effect, and no text box — there is no commander that wants it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Kingfisher sits firmly in bulk territory and will stay there. There is no demand driver — no combo, no tribal home, no reprint speculation — that would move the price off the floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.