Card
Killian, Ink Duelist
Mana cost {W}{B}
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock 2/2
Lifelink Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Spells you cast that target a creature cost {2} less to cast.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 6 known combos. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · STX · #197
- Cheapest printing
- €0.17
- EDHREC salt
- 0.39
- Color identity
- Black, White
- Keywords
- Lifelink, 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
6 known combos.
- Killian, Ink Duelist + Fallen Ideal + Monastery Mentor + Pitiless Plunderer
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Killian, Ink Duelist + Ghostly Flicker + Archaeomancer
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite magecraft triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Killian, Ink Duelist + Enduring Renewal + Phyrexian Altar + Cubwarden
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Killian can reduce alternative costs. For example, if you choose to pay the {1}{B} alternative cost for Baleful Mastery while targeting a creature, that cost would be reduced to {B}. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Killian, Ink Duelist can't reduce the colored mana requirement of a spell's mana cost. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
If a spell has additional costs, apply those increases before applying cost reductions.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast