Pygmy Kavu
Creature — Kavu
When this creature enters, draw a card for each black creature your opponents control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Planeshift
- Price
- $0.42
- EDHREC rank
- #11403
Pygmy Kavu enters the battlefield with power and toughness equal to the number of green creatures your opponents control — in a multiplayer game, that number is routinely in the double digits before you even swing. The catch is that effect is entirely dependent on your opponents' boards, which makes Pygmy Kavu a liability in the wrong matchup and a free threat in the right one; Rendmaw, Creaking Nest decks solve that problem by guaranteeing a token-dense table.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
Rendmaw, Creaking Nest fills the board with Insects every time a nontoken creature dies, and those tokens die constantly — meaning Pygmy Kavu is pulling power from both sides of the table in a deck that's already incentivizing everyone else to play creatures.
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 |
Pygmy Kavu is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it only earns a slot in one of them. In Commander, the multiplayer environment does all the work — three opponents running green creature strategies can push Pygmy Kavu into absurd stat territory for three mana. In Pauper it's technically playable at common, but the one-on-one format strips away the multiplayer scaling that makes it worthwhile, and green has better three-drops. Legacy and Vintage ignore it entirely.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.42 bulk tier
At $0.42, Pygmy Kavu is deep bulk — you're picking this up out of a dollar bin, not tracking it on a buylist. Demand is narrow enough that the price isn't going anywhere; grab a copy if you're building Rendmaw, Creaking Nest and don't lose sleep over the rest.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.