Rakavolver
Creature — Volver
Kicker 
and/or 
(You may pay an additional and/or as you cast this spell.)
If this creature was kicked with its kicker, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it and with "Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life."
If this creature was kicked with its kicker, it enters with a +1/+1 counter on it and with flying.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RUW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Apocalypse
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #30404
Rakavolver is a flexible beater that scales with kicker payments — pay for flying and lifelink, pay for black and get a +1/+1 counter boost and fear instead, and the ceiling is a 5/5 with evasion for five mana. The floor without any kicker is a vanilla 3/3 for three, which is unplayable in competitive formats, so the card lives and dies by how efficiently you can pay its optional costs.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Rakavolver is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and irrelevant in all of them at any serious power level. In Commander it occasionally appears in kicker-matters builds — Verazol, the Split Current or Hallar, the Firefletcher — where the multiple kicker payments actually mean something, but even there it's a mid-tier payoff at best. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a three-mana 3/3 that requires additional investment to threaten anything, and the card sees effectively zero play in those formats. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict: fine role-player in a dedicated kicker shell, filler everywhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Rakavolver is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a bargain bin without thinking twice. Demand is narrow enough that the price has nowhere to go; it's stable only because it's already at the floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.