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Gibbering Kami

Creature — Spirit3 generic manaBlack mana

Soulshift turns a forgettable flyer into a draw on the way out, and that inversion is the whole reason this body exists: it is built to die well rather than win combat. When it falls, it pulls a small Spirit back from the graveyard, and at four mana it sits squarely in the middle of the recursion ladder, cheap enough to retrieve the early drops it shares a curve with and small enough to be retrieved in turn by the larger Spirits whose soulshift values reach it. The evasion does quiet work here: a flyer that trades or chumps in the air still cashes out a card, which softens the attrition a swarm-based Spirit deck would otherwise bleed through. The design wants these creatures thrown into combat without hesitation, because each death registers as a draw rather than a loss; the individual body matters less than its position in a chain meant never to quite run dry. Structurally, the keyword converts a pile of unremarkable flyers into a self-replenishing engine, and this is one of its plainer, most replaceable links: expendable enough that you never mourn the trade, connective enough that the chain keeps moving through it.

Gibbering Kami (chk)
CHK · #112common
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Soulshift 3 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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