Kurbis, Harvest Celebrant
Legendary Creature — Treefolk
Kurbis enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of mana spent to cast it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Kurbis: Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn to another target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Midnight Hunt Commander
- Price
- $1.84
- EDHREC rank
- #10165
Kurbis, Harvest Celebrant enters with a pile of +1/+1 counters scaled to the mana spent on X, then distributes those counters freely across your creatures — it's a mana-sink and board-wide pump spell stapled to a body. The cost is that it does nothing if you can't pour mana into X, making it dead in the early game and dependent on a shell that actually generates the mana to exploit it; Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh decks hit that bar consistently, which is why Kurbis shows up in over a third of them.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh
Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh rewards you for loading counters onto creatures and spending big mana, and Kurbis, Harvest Celebrant does both simultaneously — dump excess mana into X, spread the counters, and watch Cleopatra's triggers fire across the board.
Fangorn, Tree Shepherd
Fangorn, Tree Shepherd cares about Forests and generating large amounts of green mana, and Kurbis, Harvest Celebrant is exactly the kind of X-spell mana sink that turns a float of unused green into a board full of oversized creatures.
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet taps for four mana spent only on X costs, and Kurbis, Harvest Celebrant converts that free four mana directly into counters — a near-automatic include in any Rosheen list that wants to spread stats rather than funnel everything into one target.
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 |
Kurbis, Harvest Celebrant is a Commander card through and through — its power scales with the kind of mana acceleration and counter synergies that define the format, and the singleton rule means it occupies a clean role as a one-of payoff rather than a redundant piece. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, the bar for a six-mana-floor creature that does nothing fast is prohibitively high, and it will never see play there. Oathbreaker can support it in counter-focused builds, but the compressed game speed makes the X cost harder to reach before the game ends. Stick to Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.84 cheap tier
At $1.84, Kurbis, Harvest Celebrant sits in the cheap tier — low enough that it's a no-brainer include if the archetype fits, with no meaningful financial risk. Its price reflects solid but niche demand: popular enough in counter and X-spell Commander builds to stay above bulk, but not the kind of card that spikes on hype.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.