Kitsune Riftwalker
Creature — Fox Wizard
Protection from Spirits and from Arcane
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #28865
Kitsune Riftwalker is a 2/2 Fox Wizard for three mana with protection from enchantments and from Arcane spells — a hyper-narrow statline that blocks almost nothing relevant in most metas. Outside of dedicated Spirit or Arcane tribal lists where it fills a creature-type slot, it earns no seat in a 99.
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 Riftwalker is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in essentially none of them. In Commander, protection from enchantments is occasionally relevant but not enough to justify a 3-mana 2/2 with no ETB, no activated ability, and no offensive presence. In Pauper, where commons compete hard for creature slots, the body is too small and the protections too situational to displace anything. Legacy and Vintage don't care about a 3-mana vanilla-adjacent creature at any power level.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Kitsune Riftwalker sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price reflects its demand accurately. Don't expect it to move — there's no emerging archetype or reprint pressure likely to shift a card this narrow.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.