First printed in Dominaria United (2022)
Creature — Badger
Kicker (You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, creatures you control gain menace until end of turn. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
3/3
- Illustrated by
- Sam Burley
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, PreDH, Standard Brawl
Rulings (7)
- Multiple instances of menace on the same creature are redundant.
- If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
- The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
- 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 a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
- 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.
- If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominaria United (DMU), Premier Draft | 55.3% | -1.1 | -0.5 | 41983 |
| Dominaria United (DMU), Sealed | 56.0% | -0.2 | +1.8 | 4120 |
- 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