Kitesail Cleric
Creature — Kor Cleric
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Flying
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, tap up to two target creatures.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Zendikar Rising
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #20656
Kitesail Cleric enters with flying and the ability to tap to exile a non-land permanent from any graveyard — relevant interaction stapled to a creature that already pulls its weight in the air. The cost is that the tap ability is once per turn and requires the Cleric itself to be untapped, so it's utility work rather than a graveyard-hate engine. In any deck that wants cheap flying bodies, Sephara, Sky's Blade included, this is a clean two-for-one on rate.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sephara, Sky's Blade
Sephara, Sky's Blade's alternate casting cost rewards flooding the board with small fliers before turn four, and Kitesail Cleric is exactly the kind of one-drop that makes that math work — pay one white mana, get a flier that also picks off whatever your opponents are recurring from their yards.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Kitesail Cleric fills a specific role: cheap flying body that doubles as incidental graveyard hate, which is useful in a format where recursive threats are everywhere. It won't dominate a game, but in Sephara, Sky's Blade or any white weenie fliers build, it earns its slot on rate alone. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, a one-mana 1/1 flier with a tap ability is too slow to see serious play — those formats demand immediate board impact or combo enablement. Pioneer sits in the same camp; the card is legal but outclassed by format staples. Kitesail Cleric is a Commander card first, a casual-format role-player second.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Kitesail Cleric is pure bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point don't move much in either direction, so there's no reason to hesitate or stockpile speculatively; just grab it when you're building.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.