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Kotis, the Fangkeeper

Legendary Creature — Zombie Warrior1 generic manaBlack manaGreen manaBlue mana

The cascade-style payoff attaches itself to a combat trigger, which changes everything about how you use it. Cascade fires when you cast; this fires when Kotis connects, and the exiled cards it lets you cast free are gated by the exact damage dealt. That coupling turns a fragile 2/1 into a build-around: the reward scales precisely with how much you can pump the body before combat damage resolves, so a single connecting hit pumped to five is a five-mana-value spell (or a fistful of cheaper ones) off the top of an opponent's deck, cast for nothing. The indestructibility is what makes the plan repeatable rather than a one-time gamble; it survives blocks and most sweepers, so the trigger is a threat every turn rather than a coin flip you make once. The design tension sits in the value being capped by your own damage output and drawn from the opponent's library, not yours, which means you are casting their spells, without paying their costs, on your terms. That is a fundamentally different resource axis from graveyard recursion or your own impulse draw: the card weaponizes an opponent's deck against them, and the more you widen the combat step, the wider the window into their library opens.

Kotis, the Fangkeeper (ptdm)
PTDM · #202prare
Pricing
Normal: $0.94
Foil: $2.11
Oracle Text

Rules text

Indestructible Whenever Kotis deals combat damage to a player, exile the top X cards of their library, where X is the amount of damage dealt. You may cast any number of spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.
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
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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