Kor Firewalker
Creature — Kor Soldier
Protection from red
Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Worldwake
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #24043
Kor Firewalker is a two-mana 2/2 with protection from red and a life-gain trigger on every red spell — a hard stop against mono-red aggro and burn strategies. The ceiling is narrow but the floor is exactly what it promises.
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 Modern and Legacy, Kor Firewalker is a dedicated sideboard card against burn and red aggro — it dodges every Lightning Bolt and gains life on each one cast, and those formats have enough red spells to make that trigger backbreaking. Commander is where Kor Firewalker loses steam: protection from red has niche value in a four-player game, the life-gain trigger requires opponents to cooperate, and a vanilla-adjacent 2/2 body doesn't justify a slot in most 99s outside of specific lifegain or protection-matters builds. Vintage has the card legal but no one is casting it there.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Kor Firewalker is deep bulk — easy to pick up in any common box. The price reflects the narrow sideboard role; it won't climb unless a new red-dominated format emerges, so buy it for the application, not the spec.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.