Krovikan Elementalist
Creature — Human Wizard
: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
: Target creature you control gains flying until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BRU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #31029
Krovikan Elementalist trades incremental value for a single explosive activation — tap it, sacrifice a creature, and you get either a 3/1 red Elemental or a 1/3 blue Elemental token, making it a reasonable sacrifice outlet with immediate board presence. The cost is real: you're down a creature to make a creature, so it only earns its slot in decks that want bodies in the graveyard or specifically need cheap sacrifice access.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Krovikan Elementalist is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a 1/1 that requires a sacrifice to generate a token. Commander is its natural home, specifically in Rakdos or Grixis sacrifice shells where the combination of a free sacrifice outlet and token generation on a single body has genuine utility. In Oathbreaker it follows the same logic — niche, but functional in the right shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Krovikan Elementalist is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without thinking twice. Bulk rares with narrow applications don't appreciate unless a combo breaks them wide open, and nothing on the horizon points that direction here.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.