Migrating Ketradon
Creature — Dinosaur
Reach
When this creature enters, you gain 4 life.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #16968
Migrating Ketradon is a six-mana 4/4 with suspend — you exile it and wait, which means you're trading immediate board presence for a discounted future threat. The cost in tempo is real, and a vanilla 4/4 at the end of the wait rarely justifies the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Migrating Ketradon has niche appeal in suspend-matters builds — commanders that reward you for having cards in exile with time counters, or that accelerate suspend by removing counters. Outside that narrow home, a vanilla 4/4 for six with a delay is simply not competitive with what the format offers at that slot. In 60-card formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Standard, Migrating Ketradon sees no meaningful play — the rate is too low and the payoff too slow for any current strategy. Pauper is the one format where bulk commons occasionally find unexpected homes, but even there, suspend creatures need a specific engine to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Migrating Ketradon is deep bulk — you're buying it out of a commons box, not tracking it on a price site. There is no realistic demand driver that moves a card like this, so treat it as a throw-in rather than an acquisition.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.