Card
Kotose, the Silent Spider
Mana cost {3}{U}{B}
Legendary Creature — Human Ninja 4/4
When Kotose enters, exile target card other than a basic land card from an opponent's graveyard. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles. For as long as you control Kotose, you may play one of the exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · NEO · #228
- Cheapest printing
- €0.14
- EDHREC salt
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- Color identity
- Black, Blue
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
- 2022-02-18 · Wizards of the Coast
If another player gains control of Kotose, the Silent Spider, you won't be able to play any of the exiled cards, even if you later regain control of it. Similarly, if Kotose leaves the battlefield and later returns, you won't be able to play the cards that were exiled the first time it was on the battlefield. - 2022-02-18 · Wizards of the Coast
You may play exactly one of the exiled cards. Once you play one of them, the others will remain in exile. - 2022-02-18 · Wizards of the Coast
You may leave any cards with the same name as the target card in the zones they're in if you want.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast