Kyren Sniper
Creature — Goblin
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have this creature deal 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #24572
Kyren Sniper pings a player for 1 damage whenever you play a Mountain — conditional, slow, and capped at incidental chip damage rather than a real threat. Unless you're assembling a dedicated Goblin or landfall-ping engine, there are stronger options at every point on the curve.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Kyren Sniper is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees virtually no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, it fits narrowest in mono-red Goblin storm builds where Mountains enter in clusters — think Valakut-style triggers stacking across a single turn — but even there the damage output rarely closes games against multiple opponents at 40 life. Pauper is the one format where low-cost repeatable pings get scrutinized hardest, and Kyren Sniper still doesn't clear the bar; the effect is too dependent on land drops rather than spells. Legacy and Vintage have no meaningful home for it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Kyren Sniper sits firmly in bulk territory — the price reflects exactly how rarely it makes a deck. It's stable at that floor simply because bulk commons and uncommons don't move, not because demand supports it.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.