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Basking Capybara

First printed in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (2023)

Basking Capybara

Creature — Capybara

Descend 4 — This creature gets +3/+0 as long as there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard.

"Even our most learned philosophers can only hope to approach the inner serenity of the humble capybara."
—Nelli, Oltec didact

1/3

Illustrated by
Ilse Gort

Legality

Rulings (2)

  • 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.
  • Cards with the ability word "descend N" have abilities that care if you have at least N permanent cards in your graveyard.

Prices

Paper price: €0.13 / $0.14 , the cheapest non-foil print (Cardmarket and TCGplayer through MTGJSON, 4 Nov 2026).

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 4 Nov 2026).

Limited On MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Basking Capybara in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI), Premier Draft 50.9% -4.4 -1.7 20990
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI), Sealed 49.9% -5.7 -4.7 2251
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen