Card
Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient
Mana cost {2}{R}{R}
Legendary Creature — Ogre Spirit 4/3
Whenever you activate an ability of an artifact, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay {R}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 23 known combos. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · M15 · #153
- Cheapest printing
- €0.35
- EDHREC salt
- 0.57
- Color identity
- Red
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
23 known combos.
- Gilded Lotus + Voltaic Key + Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient
Produces: Infinite colored mana
View on Commander Spellbook - Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient + Magistrate's Scepter + Voltaic Key
Produces: Infinite turns, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook - Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient + Basalt Monolith + Mycosynth Lattice
Produces: Infinite colored mana, Infinite colorless mana
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2014-07-18 · Wizards of the Coast
A mana ability is an ability that (1) could add mana when it resolves, (2) isn't a loyalty ability, and (3) doesn't require a target. - 2014-07-18 · Wizards of the Coast
The copy will have the same targets as the ability it's copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal). - 2014-07-18 · Wizards of the Coast
Activated abilities are written in the form "Cost: Effect." Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder texts. - 2014-07-18 · Wizards of the Coast
If the ability is modal (that is, it says "Choose one —" or the like), the copy will have the same mode. You can't choose a different one. - 2014-07-18 · Wizards of the Coast
If the ability has {X} in its cost, the value of X is copied. - 2014-07-18 · Wizards of the Coast
If paying the activation cost of the ability includes sacrificing Kurkesh, the ability won't be copied. At the time the ability is considered activated (after all costs are paid), Kurkesh is no longer on the battlefield.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast