Kitesail Scout
Creature — Kor Scout
Flying
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #23297
Kitesail Scout is a one-mana 1/1 with flying and the ability to grant another creature flying until end of turn — a narrow combat trick stapled to an underpowered body. The cost is real: this is a role-player only in dedicated evasion-matters or equipment shells, and even there it's near the bottom of the pile.
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 |
Kitesail Scout sees essentially no competitive play across any format. In Commander it occupies the lowest tier of includes — the flying-grant is useful in Voltron or go-wide evasion strategies, but one-mana 1/1s need to do more to earn a slot in a 99-card deck. Pauper is the format where it comes closest to relevance, since the card pool is shallow enough that evasion enablers on a cheap body have marginal utility in aggressive white builds. Modern, Legacy, and Vintage ignore it entirely — the effect is too conditional and the body too small to matter.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Kitesail Scout is deep bulk — the kind of card you find in a bargain bin without looking. There's no price floor to speak of, and nothing about its utility suggests any upward pressure.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.