Kithkin Billyrider
Creature — Kithkin Knight
Double strike
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #21699
Kithkin Billyrider is a 2/2 for two that gains flying and first strike whenever a creature with power 4 or greater enters the battlefield under your control — a conditional evasive threat that turns your big creatures into a trigger engine. The payoff is real in the right shell, but the 2/2 body does nothing without a steady stream of fatties to flip the switch.
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 |
In Commander, Kithkin Billyrider earns a slot in go-wide white strategies that also run large creatures — think Atraxa, Praetors' Voice superfriends or any stompy commander that routinely slams 4-power creatures into play. It's negligible in Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, where a 2/2 that needs a support condition to matter can't compete with the baseline rate of efficient threats. Pauper is its most interesting competitive context — the format's slower enough that a cheap conditional flier can actually matter, though it still needs the right tribal or stompy shell to see real play.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Kithkin Billyrider is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without a second thought. There's no price floor to fall through here, and no realistic spike vector unless a future set prints a 4-power-matters theme that pushes it into demand.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.