Kranioceros
Creature — Beast
: This creature gets +0/+3 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Conflux
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #30640
Kranioceros is a five-mana 4/4 with vigilance and a ward cost that taxes opponents who want to target it — solid stats for the price of admission, but nothing that demands a deck be built around it. It earns a slot in creature-dense stompy lists that want reliable blockers with some protection baked in, and nowhere else.
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 |
In Commander, Kranioceros is a fringe inclusion — the vigilance and ward combination is genuinely useful in go-wide or combat-focused green decks, but five mana for a 4/4 faces stiff competition at that slot. Pauper is the format where Kranioceros has the most relevance, since the card pool thins out at this power band and a taxing ward effect on a common is harder to dismiss. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage, it doesn't register — those formats demand more from a five-drop than durability.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Kranioceros is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without a second thought. That price is stable because demand is low and supply is abundant; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.