Rooting Kavu
Creature — Kavu
When this creature dies, you may exile it. If you do, shuffle all creature cards from your graveyard into your library.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #26107
Rooting Kavu is a 2/2 for two mana that replaces itself with a land when it dies — solid rate for any green deck that wants to hit land drops without sacrificing card count. The death trigger is free value that compounds over a long game, and two mana is low enough that it never feels like a tempo loss.
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 |
Rooting Kavu is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander — a 100-card singleton format where consistent land drops matter and small creatures dying to board wipes is a feature, not a bug. In Legacy and Vintage, a 2/2 body for two mana with a death trigger doesn't clear the bar; those formats demand more immediate impact, and Rooting Kavu offers none. Commander is where the land-fetch-on-death clause earns its keep, especially in aristocrats, sacrifice, or landfall shells that can engineer the trigger on demand.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Rooting Kavu sits firmly in bulk territory — it's the kind of card you pull from a commons box rather than buy outright. Bulk ramp pieces with narrow applications rarely climb unless a Commander staple puts them on the map, so don't expect the price to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.