Krovikan Whispers
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Cumulative upkeep 
or 
(At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
You control enchanted creature.
When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you lose 2 life for each age counter on it.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Coldsnap
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #29494
Krovikan Whispers steals a creature and hands you a card for each blue mana you spent to entwine it — solid value if the target is worth the investment. The upkeep tax in black life keeps it honest, but on a big enough creature the exchange is overwhelmingly in your favor.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Krovikan Whispers occupies a niche as a repeatable theft effect — stealing a high-value creature while drawing cards is the kind of two-for-one that grinds opponents down over a long game, and the entwine ceiling is real in blue-black decks with mana to spare. Legacy and Vintage have faster, cleaner interaction available, and the upkeep cost becomes a liability the moment your stolen creature dies to a removal spell you didn't see coming, so Krovikan Whispers rarely makes the cut in those formats. Commander is where it lives, particularly in theft-synergy shells that can exploit the stolen creature before the life drain becomes a problem.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Krovikan Whispers is pure bulk — easy to acquire and easy to cut without regret. It's a niche card with a narrow home, so don't expect the price to move unless theft strategies pick up serious Commander traction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.