Kyren Legate
Creature — Goblin
If an opponent controls a Plains and you control a Mountain, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Haste
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #27012
Kyren Legate enters with a triggered ability that makes a target player sacrifice a land — no mana required beyond the casting cost — which is a meaningful tempo hit stapled to a creature body. At three mana for a 2/1, the rate is poor, but you're paying for the enters-the-battlefield disruption, not the stats.
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 |
Kyren Legate is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but realistically sees zero Competitive play in any of them. In Commander, forced land sacrifice is politically charged and rarely worth a card slot when you need consistent answers — the effect is too random to reliably set back a specific threat, and one land loss rarely derails a three-player table. Legacy and Vintage have far more efficient disruption at every point on the curve, so Kyren Legate never competes there. It's a Commander-only consideration, and even there, only in dedicated land-disruption builds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Kyren Legate is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. It holds that floor because the effect is too narrow and the rate too weak to drive any real buyout pressure.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.