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Pouncing Kavu

Magic: The GatheringInvasion#158

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InvasionINV · #158
Card type
Creature — Kavu
Rarity
Common
Indicative price
0.08 € · ★ 0.74 € · 0.11 $ · ★ 1.29 $
Mana value
2
Power
1
Toughness
1
Colour
Red

Card text

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.) First strike If this creature was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it and with haste.

Format legality

  • CommanderLegal
  • DuelLegal
  • LegacyLegal
  • OathbreakerLegal
  • PauperLegal
  • PaupercommanderLegal
  • PredhLegal
  • PremodernLegal
  • VintageLegal

Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).

Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.

Printing information

Illustrator
Adam Rex
Card language
English
Release date
2000-10-02

Rulings

If the Pouncing Kavu is kicked, it enters with haste and will keep this ability until it leaves the battlefield.

If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.

If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."

If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.

If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.

The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.

To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

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