Pious Kitsune
Creature — Fox Cleric
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a devotion counter on this creature. Then if a creature named Eight-and-a-Half-Tails is on the battlefield, you gain 1 life for each devotion counter on this creature.
, Remove a devotion counter from this creature: You gain 1 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #20810
Pious Kitsune gains you one life per turn passively and can tap to gain three more whenever you control a Spirit or cast an Arcane spell — decent sustain in the right shell, but three mana for a 2/2 that only matters in a Fox or Spirit tribal deck is a steep ask elsewhere. Outside of dedicated Arcane or Spirit synergy, the effect is too slow and too conditional to justify a slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Pious Kitsune is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play in almost none of them. In Commander it fits narrowly into Spirit tribal decks or Arcane-synergy builds — think Kykar, Wind's Fury or a dedicated Fox/Spirit commander — where the tap ability actually triggers; everywhere else, three mana for incremental life gain doesn't clear the bar. In Pauper the competition at three mana is fierce and life gain without an attached board presence or draw trigger rarely makes lists. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for Pious Kitsune to matter.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Pious Kitsune is deep bulk — you're picking it up out of a common box, not tracking it on a buylist. It holds that price floor as long as Spirit tribal stays a casual Commander archetype, but there's no realistic upside pressure here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.