Nine-Tail White Fox
Creature — Fox Spirit
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #21416
Nine-Tail White Fox trades on evasion and incremental card advantage — a 2/2 that replaces itself whenever it deals combat damage to a player, stapled to a reasonable three-mana body. The ceiling is real in the right shell, but it competes with a crowded field of cheaper, faster draw engines that don't need to connect to pay off.
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, Nine-Tail White Fox fits narrow — enchantress or Voltron builds that reliably push through combat damage and want every extra card they can get. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest; three mana for a 2/2 with a conditional draw trigger doesn't survive contact with those formats' power benchmarks. Pauper is where it has the most credible case outside Commander, since card advantage on a creature is genuinely scarce at common, though it still needs evasion support to fire consistently.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Nine-Tail White Fox is deep bulk — you're not paying a meaningful premium to include it, and there's no realistic price floor to worry about. Treat it as a free inclusion test: if it's pulling weight in your deck, great; if not, nothing is lost cutting it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.