Kraul Swarm
Creature — Insect Warrior
Flying
, Discard a creature card: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #25663
Kraul Swarm is a recursive flying beater that keeps coming back from the graveyard by pitching a creature card — relevant board presence that grinds through removal. The cost is real: losing a creature every recurrence means it eats your own resources, so it earns its slot only in decks that want cards in the graveyard anyway.
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 |
Kraul Swarm is a Commander card — the recursion loop is slow and the resource cost too steep for any format where faster, cleaner threats exist. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's unplayable; four mana for a 4/3 flier with a clunky self-mill engine doesn't compete at those power levels. In Commander it finds a home in aristocrats and reanimator shells where discarding creatures is a feature, not a drawback, and evasion on a persistent threat actually matters across a long game.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Kraul Swarm sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in or out of a bulk bin without a second thought. It's unlikely to move unless a new graveyard-synergy commander pushes it into mainstream EDHREC lists.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.