Card
Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
Mana cost {2}{B}{B}
Legendary Creature — Vampire Warrior 3/4
Lifelink If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. {2}{B}, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · OGW · #86
- Cheapest printing
- €1.71
- EDHREC salt
- 0.41
- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Lifelink
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
- 2016-01-22 · Wizards of the Coast
Abilities that trigger whenever a creature an opponent controls dies won't trigger unless that creature is a token (see below). - 2016-01-22 · Wizards of the Coast
If a creature token an opponent controls dies, it goes to that player's graveyard as normal before ceasing to exist. - 2016-01-22 · Wizards of the Coast
You can't sacrifice Kalitas to activate the last ability, even if it's somehow become a Zombie. - 2016-01-22 · Wizards of the Coast
If Kalitas dies at the same time as creatures your opponents control, those creature cards will be exiled and you'll get that many Zombies.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast