Ridged Kusite
Creature — Horror Spellshaper
, 
, Discard a card: Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #27264
Ridged Kusite gives a creature -1/-0 until end of turn at the cost of tapping and paying one black mana — a repeated but expensive way to shrink blockers or reduce a threat's power. The effect is too narrow and mana-intensive to justify a deck slot in nearly any context.
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 |
Ridged Kusite is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in essentially none of them. In Commander, one-shot power reduction doesn't scale against a table of opponents, and the mana cost per activation compounds badly over a game. In Pauper, where commons compete for tight slots, there are strictly better ways to spend one black mana on a creature. Across all formats, Ridged Kusite occupies a design space — incremental power debuffs — that has never found a competitive home.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Ridged Kusite is deep bulk, the kind of card that ends up in a common box at the bottom of a trade binder. The price reflects demand accurately — there is almost none — and nothing on the competitive horizon is likely to change that.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.