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Kraul Foragers

Creature — Insect Scout

Undergrowth — When this creature enters, you gain 1 life for each creature card in your graveyard.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Jumpstart 2022
Price
$0.08
EDHREC rank
#17143
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Kraul Foragers card art
Kraul Foragers enters with a life gain burst scaled to the number of Insects on the battlefield — in the right deck, that's not incidental padding, it's a meaningful threat. The cost is five mana for a 4/4 with no evasion, which makes it a combo piece or bust; Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker loops and Grist, the Hunger Tide builds are what justify the slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Grist, the Hunger Tide

Grist, the Hunger Tide

21.3% of decks · synergy 0.21

Grist, the Hunger Tide churns out Insect tokens and fills the graveyard with them simultaneously, which means Kraul Foragers routinely enters counting six, eight, or more bodies — turning its lifegain trigger from negligible to game-swinging in a single activation.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Kraul Foragers is a Commander card. Outside of Insect-tribal or Grist, the Hunger Tide builds, it doesn't have the raw power level for competitive Constructed formats, and five mana for a 4/4 with a conditional trigger isn't clearing the bar in Modern or Pioneer without a dedicated engine. In Pauper it's legal but too slow for a format that rewards efficiency above all else. Commander is its natural home: the 100-card singleton format rewards tribal payoffs, and the multiplayer life total (40) makes a 10-to-20-life swing from Kraul Foragers actually relevant rather than decorative.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.08 bulk tier

At $0.08, Kraul Foragers is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy outright. There's no meaningful price floor to protect here; it holds its value exactly as well as any other bulk rare, which is to say not at all.

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