Kyren Negotiations
Enchantment
Tap an untapped creature you control: This enchantment deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.99
- EDHREC rank
- #14398
Kyren Negotiations turns every creature you control into a direct-damage ping — tap a creature, deal 1 to any target — which means a wide board becomes a removal engine or a win condition on the spot. Magda, Brazen Outlaw decks run it because every tap toward treasure also fires a bullet, but outside of token-flooding or tap-synergy shells, the three-mana enchantment is too slow and too low-impact.
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 Negotiations is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and that's where the story ends — it's not legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper. In Commander it finds its niche in go-wide token decks that can tap twenty creatures in a single turn and redirect the damage to planeswalkers or players as a game-closing alpha strike. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a three-mana enchantment that asks you to tap creatures for 1 damage when faster, more resilient win conditions exist at every point on the curve. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander case: pair it with a planeswalker that floods the board and the card earns its slot, otherwise skip it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Magda, Brazen OutlawKyren NegotiationsDuergar Mine-CaptainGoldspan Dragon
Infinite damage; Infinite power for certain creatures until end of turn
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Unctus, Grand MetatectThe Watcher in the WaterKyren Negotiations
Near-infinite damage; Infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite looting; Near-infinite tapped creature tokens
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Current price
$0.99 bulk tier
At $0.99, Kyren Negotiations sits at the bottom of the bulk tier — cheap enough to throw into any token deck without deliberation. It won't appreciate; this is a casual-Commander card with a narrow audience, and supply far exceeds demand.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.