Card

Kellan, the Kid

Mana cost {G}{W}{U}

Legendary Creature — Human Faerie Rogue 3/3

Flying, lifelink Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, you may cast a permanent spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost. If you don't, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 11 known combos. 6 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Mythic · OTJ · #213
Cheapest printing
€1.06
EDHREC salt
0.69
Color identity
Green, Blue, White
Keywords
Flying, Lifelink

Scryfall · EDHREC

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

11 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    Putting a land card onto the battlefield with Kellan’s last ability doesn’t count as playing a land. It can put a land card onto the battlefield even if you’ve already played your land for the turn.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    If the permanent spell you cast has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    A permanent spell is an artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker spell.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    If the spell you cast that caused Kellan, the Kid’s last ability to trigger is represented by a split card, the characteristics of the half you didn’t cast are ignored while that spell is on the stack. For example, if you cast the Cease half of Cease // Desist from the Murders at Karlov Manor release, that spell’s mana value is 2 because Cease’s mana cost is {1}{B}{G}.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    If the spell you cast that caused Kellan, the Kid’s last ability to trigger has {X} in its mana cost, X is the value chosen as that spell was cast for the purpose of determining its mana value.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you cast a spell “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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