Card

Shiko, Paragon of the Way

Mana cost {2}{U}{R}{W}

Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon 4/5

Flying, vigilance When Shiko enters, exile target nonland card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. Copy it, then you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 2 known combos. 6 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Mythic · TDM · #223
Cheapest printing
€1.25
EDHREC salt
0.29
Color identity
Red, Blue, White
Keywords
Flying, Vigilance

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

2 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2025-04-04 · Wizards of the Coast
    A resolving copy of a permanent spell becomes a token. That token isn’t “created” and won’t interact with abilities that care about tokens being created.
  • 2025-04-04 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • 2025-04-04 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you don’t want to cast the copy, you can choose not to; the copy ceases to exist the next time state-based actions are checked.
  • 2025-04-04 · 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.
  • 2025-04-04 · Wizards of the Coast
    You cast the copy while Shiko’s last ability is resolving and still on the stack. You can’t wait to cast it later in the turn.
  • 2025-04-04 · Wizards of the Coast
    If the 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.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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