Card
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
Mana cost {3}{G}{U}
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Noble 4/5
Vigilance, ward {3} Whenever you cast a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent spell from your hand, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value less than X from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · MAT · #35
- Cheapest printing
- €1.53
- EDHREC salt
- 0.33
- Color identity
- Green, Blue
- Keywords
- Vigilance, Ward
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
- 2023-05-12 · Wizards of the Coast
If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost," you can't pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast it. - 2023-05-12 · Wizards of the Coast
The spell you cast without paying its mana cost is cast during the resolution of the triggered ability. Timing restrictions of that spell based on card type are ignored. It will resolve before the spell that caused the ability to trigger. - 2023-05-12 · Wizards of the Coast
If the spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast