Verdeloth the Ancient

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

No known combos for this card.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

• 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
  If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
• 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
  If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
• 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
  If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
• 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
  The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
• 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
  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.
• 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
  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.
• 2013-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
  Verdeloth won't give himself +1/+1 unless he somehow becomes a Saproling.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast