Kingpin's Pet
Creature — Thrull
Flying
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay 
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #17340
Kingpin's Pet is a three-mana 2/2 flier with lifelink — a perfectly playable body in Orzhov extort shells where every spell triggers drain effects across the table. The extort ability is the whole reason it exists; without a critical mass of spells to fuel it, the card is just an underpowered creature.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Kingpin's Pet is a Pauper-legal common, and that's its real home — extort is a recognized win condition in Pauper's Orzhov lists, where the card's statline is competitive relative to the format's speed. In Commander, it belongs specifically in dedicated extort or lifegain-drain builds; outside those archetypes, a 2/2 flier for three is well below the power bar. Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage have enough efficient threats and interaction that Kingpin's Pet doesn't compete for slots, so treat those formats as a hard pass.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Kingpin's Pet is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that does exactly what it promises in the right shell. Bulk commons rarely move on price, so there's no financial angle here; just pick up a copy when you're building the deck.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.