Geothermal Kami
Creature — Spirit
When this creature enters, you may return an enchantment you control to its owner's hand. If you do, you gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #25763
Geothermal Kami enters tapped, produces one mana of any color by tapping, and replaces itself with a land from your hand — a enters-the-battlefield trigger that smooths your mana without costing you a card. The ask is a two-mana creature that does nothing until it untaps, which is too slow for most competitive tables but perfectly functional at casual ones.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Geothermal Kami occupies the bottom tier of ramp — it's a 2/2 body attached to a one-time Lay of the Land effect, which means it's outclassed by nearly every sorcery-speed land ramp spell at the same cost. Pauper is the format where it's most worth a second look, since the common card pool narrows the competition and a 2/2 that replaces itself has real utility in creature-based shells. Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage don't want it — the effect is too marginal and the speed too slow for any of those formats. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: fine at casual tables, a liability anywhere the game moves fast.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Geothermal Kami is deep bulk — buy the whole playset for the cost of a sleeve. There's no meaningful price floor to hold here; bulk commons stay bulk unless a combo or spike in demand appears, and nothing about this card suggests that's coming.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.