Card
Ketramose, the New Dawn
Mana cost {1}{W}{B}
Menace, lifelink, indestructible Ketramose can't attack or block unless there are seven or more cards in exile. Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from graveyards and/or the battlefield during your turn, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 204 known combos. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · DFT · #209
- Cheapest printing
- €4.05
- EDHREC salt
- 0.85
- Color identity
- Black, White
- Keywords
- Lifelink, Indestructible, Menace
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
204 known combos.
- Ketramose, the New Dawn + Currency Converter + Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Produces: Infinite self-discard triggers, Near-infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite draw triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Ketramose, the New Dawn + Necropotence + Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Produces: Infinite self-discard triggers, Near-infinite lifegain, Near-infinite lifegain triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Ketramose, the New Dawn + Containment Construct + Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Produces: Infinite self-discard triggers, Near-infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite draw triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
Once Ketramose has been declared as an attacker or blocker, it will continue to attack or block that combat even if the number of cards in exile falls below seven. - 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
The ability that prevents Ketramose from attacking or blocking counts the total number of cards in exile, regardless of who owns them or how they were exiled.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast