Kitsune Blademaster
Creature — Fox Samurai
First strike
Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #18116
Kitsune Blademaster is a 2/2 first striker for three mana with bushido 1 — a statline that was modest at printing and hasn't aged into relevance. Tribal Samurai and Warrior lists are the only homes where it even competes for a slot, and it rarely wins that competition.
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 |
Kitsune Blademaster is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Commander, a 2/2 first striker for three with a conditional +1/+1 bonus in combat is too small to matter at a four-player table. Pauper is where the conversation gets slightly more interesting — aggro white does exist — but three mana for a 2/2 is still a poor rate when the format has better commons available. Legacy and Vintage won't touch it. Kitsune Blademaster is effectively a bulk common that floats in legal-but-irrelevant territory across every format it can enter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Kitsune Blademaster is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a commons box and stays there. Don't expect the price to move; there's no competitive demand pulling it up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.