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Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner

Legendary Planeswalker — Kiora

Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
−1: Untap target permanent.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G/U}
Color identity
GU
Rarity
uncommon
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#2254
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Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner card art
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner draws a card whenever a creature with power 4 or greater enters under your control and untaps any permanent when you cast one — a two-ability engine stapled to a three-mana planeswalker body. The cost is almost nothing in any green deck that wants big creatures, which is why she slots cleanly beside Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep and even shows up in blink shells like Aminatou, the Fateshifter to double-trigger the draw ability.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

02
Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist

Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist

62.6% of decks · synergy 0.57

Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist forces everyone to accumulate Salamander Warrior tokens, but Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner is there to make sure Gor Muldrak's own big threats — the ones that actually matter — refuel the hand and untap key permanents along the way.

03
Helga, Skittish Seer

Helga, Skittish Seer

50.6% of decks · synergy 0.46

Helga, Skittish Seer places +1/+1 counters to push creatures past the power-4 threshold, and once they cross it, Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner turns every subsequent large creature entering as a free card draw, compounding Helga's scaling gameplan.

04
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists

Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists

47.2% of decks · synergy 0.43

Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists flood the board with oversized Dinosaurs, and Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner converts that flood directly into card advantage while the untap ability keeps expedition lands and mana rocks available for further casts.

05
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

43.7% of decks · synergy 0.38

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle is itself a 12/12 that wakes up and triggers Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner's draw the moment it stops being a land, and the untap ability can bounce Arixmethes back to an untapped state for mana the same turn.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner earns her keep — the format's emphasis on large threats means the draw trigger fires constantly, and the untap ability scales from untapping a Sol Ring to generating absurd mana with Nykthos or Gaea's Cradle. She's legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage, but three mana for a planeswalker with no immediate board impact and no minus ability is a hard sell in any of those formats, where interaction is cheap and fast enough to kill her before she draws a single card. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where she genuinely fits, sitting in the companion seat alongside a big-creature signature spell and doing exactly what she does in Commander.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner isn't currently available here, so check Scryfall or a retailer for the live number. Given her age, reprint history, and the niche but dedicated big-creature Commander audience, she's historically stayed in budget territory — worth picking up whenever she surfaces cheaply.

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