Card
Karmic Guide
Mana cost {3}{W}{W}
Flying, protection from black Echo {3}{W}{W} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 790 known combos. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · ULG · #11
- Cheapest printing
- €0.33
- EDHREC salt
- 0.35
- Color identity
- White
- Keywords
- Echo, Flying, Protection
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
790 known combos.
- Karmic Guide + Reveillark + Viscera Seer
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Karmic Guide + Reveillark + Ashnod's Altar
Produces: Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Karmic Guide + Reveillark + Altar of Dementia
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2021-06-18 · Wizards of the Coast
Your permanent's echo ability will trigger at the beginning of your upkeep if it entered the battlefield since the beginning of your last upkeep, or if you gained control of it since the beginning of your last upkeep. - 2021-06-18 · Wizards of the Coast
Paying for echo is always optional. When the echo triggered ability resolves, if you can't pay the echo cost or choose not to, you sacrifice that permanent.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast