Krumar Initiate
Creature — Human Cleric
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, Pay X life: This creature endures X. Activate only as a sorcery. (Put X +1/+1 counters on it or create an X/X white Spirit creature token.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #19155
Krumar Initiate is a 3/3 menace for five mana with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no upside — the stat-to-cost ratio is simply too poor to justify a slot. Menace on a vanilla-adjacent body at five mana is not a competitive rate in any serious Commander list.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Krumar Initiate is legal across every major constructed format, but that legality is academic — a 3/3 menace for five mana doesn't clear the bar in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, or Legacy, where threats at that price tag either end the game or come with significant text. In Commander, where the singleton format and 40-life total raise the ceiling on what a five-drop needs to do, Krumar Initiate offers nothing a deck actually wants: no enters effect, no tribal payoff outside of Orc synergies, and no late-game relevance. It's a Limited card that never graduated.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Krumar Initiate is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not utility. The price accurately reflects what it does, and there's no pressure to pick one up unless a very specific Orc tribal list needs a warm body to fill a slot.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.