Kogla and Yidaro
Legendary Creature — Ape Dinosaur Turtle
When Kogla and Yidaro enters, choose one —
• It gains trample and haste until end of turn.
• It fights target creature you don't control.
, Discard this card: Destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. Shuffle this card into your library from your graveyard, then draw a card.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- March of the Machine Promos
- Price
- $2.10
- EDHREC rank
- #2389
Kogla and Yidaro lands as a 10/10 trampling, fighting, Human-bouncing threat for seven mana — the enters-the-battlefield trigger alone justifies the slot in any green stompy shell. The cost is real, but Kibo, Uktabi Prince runs it in 74% of decks for a reason: the payoff is immediate and doesn't require setup.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kibo, Uktabi Prince
Kibo, Uktabi Prince distributes Banana tokens that become fodder for Kogla and Yidaro's Human-bounce ability, and the recursive cycling threat fits perfectly into Kibo's game plan of weaponizing artifacts and apes at the same time.
Radha, Heir to Keld
Radha, Heir to Keld wants to attack early and often, and Kogla and Yidaro gives that deck a top-end finisher that fights on entry and keeps coming back via the cycling loop when the board stalls.
Neyith of the Dire Hunt
Neyith of the Dire Hunt rewards attacking with the biggest creature, and Kogla and Yidaro's fight trigger doubles as a forced combat setup that Neyith can then draw cards off of.
Ruby, Daring Tracker
Ruby, Daring Tracker incentivizes large creatures that can survive combat, and Kogla and Yidaro's 10/10 body with trample is exactly the kind of threat that takes over a game while Ruby accrues value.
Nikya of the Old Ways
Nikya of the Old Ways runs only creatures, and Kogla and Yidaro is a creature that replaces itself through the cycling recursion loop — no instants or sorceries required to keep the engine running.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Kogla and Yidaro does its best work: seven mana is reachable by mid-game in a format with Sol Ring and green ramp, and the enters-the-battlefield fight trigger plus the bounce-a-Human text both matter in a multiplayer environment full of Human-tribal staples and problematic creatures. The cycling recursion loop is also more relevant here, where a recurring 10/10 threat can grind out stalled board states over multiple turns. In competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy, Kogla and Yidaro is too slow and too fair — those formats kill you before seven mana is ever relevant, and the card sees essentially no play there. Pioneer sits in the same boat: the card is legal but irrelevant against the format's faster threats and interaction density.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.10 cheap tier
At $2.10, Kogla and Yidaro sits firmly in the bulk-rare tier, which undersells how much card you're getting for seven mana. The price is stable — it's not a combo piece that spikes on discovery, but a fair threat with broad appeal across Gruul Commander builds, so don't expect it to crater further or climb without a reprint announcement.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.