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Kavu Climber

Creature — Kavu3 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Replacement-level value, distilled to its plainest creature form. A 3/3 for five with a card stapled to the body's arrival is green's answer to a problem blue had long since solved with Sea Gate Oracle and white with Wall of Omens: how do you spend a turn developing a creature without surrendering a card to do it? The cantrip does the bookkeeping, so the slot is never a true loss; you trade a turn's tempo for a guaranteed swap and keep the 3/3 on the table as a bonus. Because the draw fires when the creature enters rather than when you cast it, the trigger rides every blink and reanimation effect that puts it onto the battlefield a second time, while a counterspell leaves you with nothing. The durability of the design is in its total lack of strings: no kicker, no creature type to satisfy, no opponent's board to read. It resolves, you draw, the body sticks. That floor-without-a-ceiling shape is precisely why this effect keeps reappearing on green commons across era after era; it demands no particular support and pays back a creature plus a card every time, whatever surrounds it. The stat line is the honesty in the bargain: nobody runs a five-cost 3/3 for the combat math, and the draw is what redeems the inefficient rate. Green paying a fee to keep its hand stocked, a creature built to grind board states rather than win a race.

Kavu Climber (a25)
A25 · #175common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.09
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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