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Koh, the Face Stealer

Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter Spirit4 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

The design problem here is a graveyard toolbox that never hands you a static permanent to build around: instead of stealing a body, this steals a function. The exile-on-entry sets the first tenant, then every nontoken creature that dies elsewhere becomes an optional filing into a personal library of abilities. What makes the engine tick is the one-life activation that re-chooses which card's abilities Koh currently wears, so the same 6/6 can be a mana engine one turn, a death-trigger payoff the next, and a repeatable removal outlet after that, all keyed to whatever has died into the exile pile. The design lineage runs through cards that impersonate creatures wholesale (Vesuvan Shapeshifter, Volrath's Shapeshifter) and through graveyard-abusing value pieces, but the distinction is precise: Koh does not copy stats or become the creature, it only inherits that card's activated and triggered abilities while keeping its own body. That narrows the ceiling (no evasion, no static keywords, no power-and-toughness theft) and widens the flexibility, because the payoff scales with the diversity of what dies, not the quality of a single copy target. The life payment is the meter that keeps the reconfiguration honest: repeatable, cheap, but a nonzero cost that the card must fund from a finite resource. It is a Shapeshifter built for a graveyard the pilot is actively feeding, rewarding a deck stocked with creatures whose abilities are worth wearing rather than whose stats are worth stealing.

Koh, the Face Stealer (tla)
TLA · #107mythic
Pricing
Normal: $0.42
Foil: $1.03
Oracle Text

Rules text

When Koh enters, exile up to one other target creature. Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may exile it. Pay 1 life: Choose a creature card exiled with Koh. Koh has all activated and triggered abilities of the last chosen card.
Legalities

Format Status

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