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Cleaving Skyrider

First printed in Dominaria United (2022)

Cleaving Skyrider

Creature — Human Warrior

Flash
Kicker 2 genericRed (You may pay an additional 2 genericRed as you cast this spell.)
Flying
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, it deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

2/2

Illustrated by
Joshua Raphael

Legality

Rulings (8)

  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, this triggered ability counts all attacking creatures that each attacking team controls.
  • Cleaving Skyrider's triggered ability counts all attacking creatures, even attacking creatures other players control.
  • If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
  • 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."

Prices

MTGO price: 0.003 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).

Win rates of Cleaving Skyrider in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Dominaria United (DMU), Premier Draft 56.4% 0.0 -1.0 31471
Dominaria United (DMU), Sealed 55.1% -1.0 -0.8 2691
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