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Kindred Discovery

Enchantment MV 5

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What it does

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.

Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.

Combos with Kindred Discovery

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2017-08-25

    If you somehow control a Kindred Discovery with no chosen creature type, its last ability can't trigger, even if a creature with no creature types enters the battlefield or attacks.

  • 2022-06-10

    You must choose an existing creature type, such as Human or Warrior. Card types such as artifact and supertypes such as legendary can't be chosen.

  • 2022-06-10

    The choice of creature type is made as Kindred Discovery enters the battlefield. Players can't take any actions between the time the choice is made and the time it enters the battlefield. Notably, this means that if it is entering the battlefield at the same time as any creatures of the chosen type, its last ability will trigger.

  • 2023-09-01

    You can't choose multiple creature types, such as "Cat Warrior." A Cat Warrior is both a Cat and a Warrior. It's affected by anything that affects either type and unaffected by things that affect non-Cat or non-Warrior creatures.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Kindred Discovery, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 14
Games played 8
Win rate 37.5%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Hakbal of the Surging Soul 3 0 —
Namor the Sub-Mariner 2 7 42.9%
Captain America, Team Leader 2 1 —
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 1 0 —
Mass of Mysteries 1 0 —
Sliver Hivelord 1 0 —
The Ur-Dragon 1 0 —
Thranduil the Strategist 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Simic 4 decks
  • Five-Color 3 decks
  • Jeskai 3 decks
  • Mono-Blue 2 decks
  • Grixis 1 deck
  • Temur 1 deck

Every version of Kindred Discovery

11 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Kindred Discovery — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.