Kruin Striker
Creature — Human Warrior
Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature gets +1/+0 and gains trample until end of turn. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #23719
Kruin Striker enters as a 1/1 and grows by +1/+1 whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control — in a token or go-wide shell, it hits the table and immediately starts threatening combat. Two mana for a conditionally scaling body is a reasonable rate, but it does nothing in isolation, so it earns its slot only in decks that flood the board fast.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Kruin Striker is a role-player in dedicated token or creature-storm builds — it scales well in a 100-card singleton context because the redundancy requirement is baked into the deck's strategy rather than the card itself. In Pauper, common-legal token strategies exist but are rarely the dominant archetype, so Kruin Striker sits on the fringe of playability there. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern are too fast for a 2-mana 1/1 that needs setup; the same slot in those formats buys far more immediate impact. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read — valid in the right shell, irrelevant outside it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Kruin Striker is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card itself. That price is stable by definition; bulk commons don't move unless a breakout deck adopts them, and nothing in the current metagame signals that shift for Kruin Striker.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.