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Keruga, the Macrosage

Keruga, the Macrosage Price

10 printings · 5 sets · first printed 2020

Cheapest $0.20
Median $0.51
Highest $6.75
EDHREC Rank #8,877

Keruga, the Macrosage has been printed 10 times across 5 sets, first in 2020 and most recently in 2024. Right now the cheapest printing is Mystery Booster 2 #84 at $0.20, while the most expensive is Multiverse Legends #178 at $6.75 — about 34× more. The median across 8 priced printings is $0.51. 1 serialized (numbered) printing is listed below but left out of the headline prices. Reprint risk: ELEVATED — Reprinted 10x total; appeared once in a dedicated reprint set (Mystery Booster 2).

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Every Keruga, the Macrosage Printing, Compared

Cheapest first · unpriced last
Printing Year Price Dealer Buys
Mystery Booster 2 #84 (R) Cheapest 2024 $0.20 —
Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths #225 (R) 2020 $0.30 $0.16 foil
Multiverse Legends #48 (R) 2023 $0.35 $0.03
Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths #354 (R) 2020 $0.41 $0.08
Multiverse Legends #113 (R) Foil 2023 $0.61 —
Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos #225s (R) Foil 2020 $0.65 $0.52 foil
Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos #225p (R) 2020 $0.69 $0.33
Multiverse Legends #178 (R) Foil 2023 $6.75 $3.30 foil
Multiverse Legends #178z (R) Foil Serialized 2023 — —
Magic Online Promos #80847 (R) 2020 — —

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Oracle Text
Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Hippo
Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with mana value 3 or greater and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for 3 as a sorcery.)

When Keruga enters, draw a card for each other permanent you control with mana value 3 or greater.
5 / 4
Legal In
Pioneer Modern Legacy Vintage Commander Brawl Penny Dreadful

Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 10 versions.

Official Judge Precedents

15 Precedents

If a card in a player's deck or a permanent on the battlefield has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

The requirements of the companion ability apply only to your starting deck. They do not apply to your sideboard.

The companion's other abilities apply only if the creature is on the battlefield. They have no effect while the companion is outside the game.

The mana value of a token that isn't a copy of another object is 0. A token that is a copy of another object has the same mana cost as that object.

Before shuffling your deck to become your library, you may reveal one card from outside the game to be your companion if your starting deck meets the requirements of the companion ability. You can't reveal more than one. It remains revealed outside the game as the game begins.

If more than one player wishes to reveal a companion, the starting player does so first, and players proceed in turn order. Once a player has chosen not to reveal a companion, that player can't change their mind.

The companion ability has no effect if the card is in your starting deck and creates no restriction on putting a card with a companion ability into your starting deck. For example, Zirda may be in your starting deck even if your other permanent cards don't all have activated abilities.

If you reveal a companion outside the game, for as long as it remains there, you may pay {3} any time you could cast a sorcery (that is, you have priority during your main phase and the stack is empty). Once you do, you put it into your hand and behaves like any other card you've brought into the game. For example, if it's discard, countered, or destroyed, it's put into your graveyard, remaining in the game. This is a change from previous rules.

Paying {3} to put your companion into your hand is a special action. It doesn't use the stack and players can't respond to it. Once you take this action, you may cast that card if it's legal to do so before any other player can take actions.

Your companion begins the game outside the game. In tournament play, this means your sideboard. In casual play, it's simply a card you own that's not in your starting deck.

You may have one companion in the Commander variant. Your deck, including your commander, must meet its companion requirement. Your companion is not one of your one hundred cards.

If you reveal a companion outside the game, for as long as it remains there, you may pay {3} any time you could cast a sorcery (that is, you have priority during your main phase and the stack is empty). Once you do, you put it into your hand and behaves like any other card you've brought into the game. For example, if it's discarded, countered, or destroyed, it's put into your graveyard, remaining in the game. This is a change from previous rules.

Once you put your companion into your hand, it behaves like any other card you’ve brought into the game. For example, if it’s countered or destroyed, it’s put into your graveyard, remaining in the game.

Paying {3} to put your companion into your hand is a special action. It doesn't use the stack and players can't respond to it. Once you take this action, you may cast that card if it's legal to do so before any other player can take actions.

Wizards of the Coast has issued functional errata for the Companion mechanic. Instead of casting companions from outside the game: Once per game, any time you could cast a sorcery (during your main phase when the stack is empty), you can pay {3} to put your companion from your sideboard into your hand. This is a special action, not an activated ability. It happens immediately and can’t be responded to. It can’t be countered or stopped by cards like Phyrexian Revoker. For more information please see https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/june-1-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcement