Rogue Kavu
Creature — Kavu
Whenever this creature attacks alone, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #29747
Rogue Kavu is a two-mana 2/2 with first strike and the ability to become unblockable against decks that run blue or black — which, in Commander, is most of the table. For the cost, that combination of evasion and combat resilience lands Rogue Kavu squarely in aggressive red builds that want cheap, hard-to-answer threats.
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 |
In Commander, Rogue Kavu earns its slot in go-wide or Voltron-adjacent red strategies that punish blue and black-heavy pods — and given how ubiquitous those colors are at most tables, its unblockable clause fires consistently. In Pauper, the format's creature-heavy aggro and midrange decks can leverage it as an early threat that dodges the format's common blue tempo answers. Legacy and Vintage are too hostile an environment for a two-mana 2/2 to matter, regardless of its keywords. Rogue Kavu's ceiling is Commander, where the political and pod dynamics make its color-hate evasion genuinely relevant turn after turn.
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Price Context
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.