Kiyomaro, First to Stand
Legendary Creature — Spirit
Kiyomaro's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
As long as you have four or more cards in hand, Kiyomaro has vigilance.
Whenever Kiyomaro deals damage, if you have seven or more cards in hand, you gain 7 life.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.49
- EDHREC rank
- #20607
Kiyomaro, First to Stand is a hand-size payoff that grows, gains you life, and draws a card whenever it deals damage — all stapled onto a 5/5 when you're holding seven or more cards. The cost is real: five mana for a creature that does nothing the turn it enters and depends entirely on you maintaining a large hand.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Kiyomaro, First to Stand is most at home in white decks built around hand-size advantages — Alms Collector, Smothering Tithe, and card-hoarding strategies that keep your grip full well into the late game. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; no competitive shell wants a five-mana vanilla creature that telegraphs its power and lacks haste or protection. Modern is the same story — too slow, too fragile, too dependent on a resource (large hand size) that aggressive formats punish. Commander is the only format where the card sees genuine play, and even there it's a build-around, not a generically good threat.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.49 bulk tier
At $0.49, Kiyomaro, First to Stand is deep bulk — fair for a card with narrow applications and no competitive demand. It holds that floor comfortably; there's no spike catalyst on the horizon, but there's also no reason it should cost more.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.