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Krasis Incubation

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
{1}{G}{U}, Return this Aura to its owner's hand: Put two +1/+1 counters on enchanted creature.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{U}
Color identity
GU
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Dragon's Maze
Price
$0.10
EDHREC rank
#25168
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Krasis Incubation card art
Krasis Incubation freezes a creature and an artifact or land permanently until you spend mana to bounce it — an unconventional answer that doubles as a soft lock when you can keep the activation cost up. The three-mana enchant plus the recurring four-mana untap tax is real, but on something like Crystalline Crawler it becomes a one-sided stax piece that scales with how much mana your opponent is willing to waste.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the only format where Krasis Incubation is worth sleeving up — the singleton environment lets it answer a single problem permanent indefinitely, and the slower game pace means the enchant cost and activation tax are manageable. In Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, a four-mana enchant Aura that doesn't permanently answer anything is simply too slow and too fragile to removal, where opponents can just destroy the enchantment and untap for free. Krasis Incubation is a Commander-only card in practice, full stop.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.10 bulk tier

At $0.10, Krasis Incubation is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not buying a single. That price will hold; there's no competitive demand pulling it up, and it sees enough Commander play to prevent it from becoming true zero-cent filler.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.