Kirol, Attentive First-Year
ECL · rare · Released 2026-01-23
Power
Tier shown as baseline → best-case (in its ideal shell).
Derived from the 7 atoms below.
above rate
meaningful alone
needs a shell
can take over a game
one mode
situational
easily answered
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Rationale
Kirol copies any triggered ability you control once per turn by tapping two untapped creatures — an extraordinarily flexible effect that scales with trigger density (ETBs, attack triggers, death triggers, landfall, etc.). Signature in wide-board shells (tokens, aristocrats, flicker) where spare creatures are plentiful and high-value triggers abound. Requires at least two untapped creatures to function, making it weak in low-creature or creature-light strategies, and is sorcery-speed in practice since you activate before triggers resolve.
Learnings (3)
Kirol copies triggered abilities — not activated abilities — so it won't copy mana abilities, equip activations, or tap effects; it only copies triggers already on the stack, meaning you must have a trigger in play when you activate.
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In Boros (R/W), Kirol is uniquely powerful with attack-trigger commanders (e.g., Aurelia, Adriana) since tapping two attackers during the trigger window to copy the attack trigger is fully legal.
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The tap-two-creatures cost means Kirol is actively anti-synergistic with vigilance payoffs or untap-matters decks — you want expendable bodies, not valuable untapped utilities.
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Popularity
- EDHREC rank: #8,232