Kitchen Imp
Creature — Imp
Flying, haste
Madness 
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #11524
Kitchen Imp enters the battlefield with haste and flies for two black mana — the cost is discarding a card, which in the right deck is a feature, not a drawback. Anywhere Anje Falkenrath is in the command zone, that discard is free value.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Anje Falkenrath
Anje Falkenrath untaps whenever a Madness card is discarded, and Kitchen Imp is exactly that — a zero-net-cost activation that replaces itself with a flying body and keeps the tap-untap engine spinning.
Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar requires you to have discarded a card this turn to cast it for free, and Kitchen Imp's built-in discard satisfies that condition while leaving a haste creature on board.
Indominus Rex, Alpha
Indominus Rex, Alpha wants cards in the graveyard with specific keywords to copy, and Kitchen Imp supplies both flying and haste to that pool while the Madness cost means you're discarding on your own terms.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is Kitchen Imp's real home — the discard-matters and Madness synergies that make it playable are common enough there to justify the slot, and a 2/1 flyer with haste is a fine rate when the discard cost is effectively free. In Pauper, it's technically legal but competes with more efficient common threats that don't demand a specific engine to justify inclusion. Legacy and Vintage are simply too fast for a two-mana 2/1 to matter, even with evasion and haste. Kitchen Imp is a narrow role-player: run it if your deck wants to discard, ignore it everywhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't currently available for Kitchen Imp, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for a live number. Given its narrow playability outside Madness shells, it has historically sat at bulk or near-bulk pricing — worth grabbing a copy if you're building the relevant decks, but not a card to hunt down at a premium.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Anje Falkenrath
- Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
- Indominus Rex, Alpha
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.