First printed in Invasion (2000)
Creature — Kavu
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.
1/1
- Illustrated by
- Adam Rex
Pouncing Kavu legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (7)
- If the Pouncing Kavu is kicked, it enters with haste and will keep this ability until it leaves the battlefield.
- If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
- If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
- If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
- 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 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.
Prices
Paper price: €0.06 / $0.11 , the cheapest non-foil print (Cardmarket, and TCGplayer, otherwise Mana Pool or Card Kingdom, through MTGJSON, 10 Nov 2026).
MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 10 Nov 2026).