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Rogue Kavu

Creature — Kavu1 generic manaRed mana

A 1/1 that swings as a 3/1 the moment it goes in unescorted, which is a deceptively precise reward to staple onto a two-drop. The bonus only fires when the Kavu attacks alone, so it punishes the wide, mobbing assault and rewards the lean, surgical one: the turns where the board has stalled and you need a single creature to slip in for meaningful damage. That conditional doubles as a tempo signal. It encourages a hand light on bodies, pushing chip damage early before the ground clogs, then quietly underperforming once you actually have a battalion to send. The design is honest about its niche. It does not scale with a developed board; it wants to be your only attacker, and it gives nothing back for the crowd you might prefer to have. The result is a small, self-limiting incentive structure: aggression that pays out best when you are committing the fewest resources to the swing, a kind of inverse anthem that flips the usual go-wide logic on its head and asks the red deck to weigh whether one attacker is sometimes the right number.

Rogue Kavu (9ed)
9ED · #213common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks alone, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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