Card
Kate Stewart
Mana cost {1}{U}{R}{W}
Legendary Creature — Human Scientist 3/3
Whenever you put one or more time counters on a permanent you control, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. Whenever Kate Stewart attacks, you may pay {8}. If you do, attacking creatures get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of time counters among permanents you control.
Part of 34 known combos, one of them two-card. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · WHO · #139
- Cheapest printing
- €0.19
- EDHREC salt
- 0.64
- Color identity
- Red, Blue, White
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Soultether Golem
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Soultether Golem
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partner: Soultether Golem
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Soultether Golem (early with Soultether Golem)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
34 known combos, one of them two-card.
- Kate Stewart + Soultether Golem
Produces: Draw the game, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Kate Stewart + Intruder Alarm + Jhoira's Timebug
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
View on Commander Spellbook - Kate Stewart + Intruder Alarm + Hourglass of the Lost + Vizier of Tumbling Sands
Produces: Infinite white mana, Infinitely large creatures you control until end of turn, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
Similarly, its last ability counts only time counters on permanents, not on cards you own in exile. - 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
Kate Stewart's first ability triggers only when you put time counters on permanents. It does not trigger when you put time counters on cards in exile.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast