Yavimaya Kavu
Creature — Kavu
Yavimaya Kavu's power is equal to the number of red creatures on the battlefield.
Yavimaya Kavu's toughness is equal to the number of green creatures on the battlefield.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #27363
Yavimaya Kavu is a flexible green creature that grows based on the number of Forests and green creatures you control, making it a legitimately large body in the right shell for essentially no extra investment. The cost is that it does nothing outside a green-heavy deck — in any other context it's a vanilla understatement.
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 |
Yavimaya Kavu is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and that's where the story ends — it's not legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper. In Commander it finds its best home in mono-green or heavily green decks where the board routinely has enough Forests and green creatures to push Yavimaya Kavu into genuinely threatening size. Legacy and Vintage are theoretically available, but neither format has any interest in a creature whose power ceiling depends on a green-dense battlefield.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Yavimaya Kavu is deep bulk — easy to acquire and easy to replace. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point rarely move unless a format shift creates demand, and nothing in Yavimaya Kavu's profile suggests that's coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.