Mire Kavu
Creature — Kavu
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Planeshift
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #29789
Mire Kavu is a vanilla 3/3 for three mana whose power and toughness are entirely dependent on how many Swamps you control — in a mono-black or heavily black shell it can punch well above its cost, but in any multi-color deck it's just an underpowered beater. The ceiling is real; the floor is unplayable.
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 |
In Commander, Mire Kavu earns a slot only in dedicated mono-black or Swamp-heavy builds where it reliably enters as a 5/5 or larger by the mid-game. Pauper is its best home — the format's slower clock and abundance of mono-black aggro and devotion strategies let it trade up consistently. In Legacy and Vintage it's simply outclassed; the formats move too fast and too efficiently for a conditional vanilla creature to matter. Mire Kavu is a card you build around, not a card you slot in.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Mire Kavu is deep bulk — you're paying nearly nothing for a conditional beater with a narrow home. It holds that price floor comfortably because demand is low and supply is high, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.