Basking Capybara
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The Lost Caverns of IxalanLCI · #175
- Card type
- Creature — Capybara
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.04 € · ★ 0.19 € · 0.11 $ · ★ 0.17 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 1
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- Green
Card text
Descend 4 — This creature gets +3/+0 as long as there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- FutureLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PioneerLegal
- StandardLegal
- StandardbrawlLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Ilse Gort
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2023-11-17
Flavour text
"Even our most learned philosophers can only hope to approach the inner serenity of the humble capybara." —Nelli, Oltec didact
Rulings
Cards with the ability word "descend N" have abilities that care if you have at least N permanent cards in your graveyard.
Some descend triggered abilities include intervening "if" clauses (i.e. "if you have [four or eight] permanent cards in your graveyard" in the middle of the ability). Each of these abilities checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if it does. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability doesn't trigger at all. If it does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.