Card
Kalain, Reclusive Painter
Mana cost {B}{R}
Legendary Creature — Human Elf Bard 1/2
When Kalain enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Other creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them for each mana from a Treasure spent to cast them.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 22 known combos.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · AFR · #225
- Cheapest printing
- €0.24
- EDHREC salt
- 0.24
- Color identity
- Black, Red
- Keywords
- Treasure
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
22 known combos.
- Deadeye Navigator + Panharmonicon + Kalain, Reclusive Painter
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Deadeye Navigator + Mondrak, Glory Dominus + Kalain, Reclusive Painter
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Deadeye Navigator + Xorn + Kalain, Reclusive Painter
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
No official rulings for this card.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast