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God-Eternal Kefnet

Legendary Creature — Zombie God

Flying
You may reveal the first card you draw each turn as you draw it. Whenever you reveal an instant or sorcery card this way, copy that card and you may cast the copy. That copy costs {2} less to cast.
When God-Eternal Kefnet dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
War of the Spark Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#7890
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God-Eternal Kefnet card art
God-Eternal Kefnet is a four-mana 4/5 flier that copies the first instant or sorcery you draw each turn at a two-mana discount — an engine that snowballs fast with any top-deck manipulation. Pair it with Scroll Rack to control what you're copying, and the value compounds immediately; the cost is that Kefnet does nothing the turn it enters and needs instants or sorceries to actually fire, making it a liability in spell-light builds or against Geralf, the Fleshwright mirrors running enough interaction to answer a 4/5 before it untaps.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Geralf, the Fleshwright

Geralf, the Fleshwright

27.5% of decks · synergy 0.26

Geralf, the Fleshwright curves naturally into God-Eternal Kefnet because Geralf rewards casting spells on multiple opponents' turns, and Kefnet turns each draw step into a free or discounted spell — every copied instant is another trigger for Geralf's zombie-generating ability, compounding board presence and card advantage simultaneously.

02
Atreus, Impulsive SonKratos, Stoic Father

Atreus, Impulsive Son // Kratos, Stoic Father

23.6% of decks · synergy 0.23

Atreus, Impulsive Son // Kratos, Stoic Father generates extra combat phases and impulse draw effects that feed directly into God-Eternal Kefnet, since seeing more cards each turn means more opportunities to trigger the copy ability and close the game with discounted high-impact spells.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where God-Eternal Kefnet does its best work — the 100-card singleton format creates enough variance in draw steps that the top-deck copy trigger fires consistently, and the longer game gives Kefnet time to generate the kind of card advantage that wins attrition wars. In competitive Commander, it sits comfortably in any blue-heavy control or combo shell that wants to rebuy counterspells, draw spells, or extra-turn effects at a steep discount. Legacy and Vintage have it legal but functionally irrelevant — formats that fast have better things to do with four mana. Pioneer and Modern are the formats where God-Eternal Kefnet has the most realistic non-Commander case, slotting into controlling blue midrange as a resilient threat that refuels while attacking, though it remains niche against the faster threats and answers those formats demand.

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for God-Eternal Kefnet isn't available here — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for live numbers before buying. Given its sustained Commander popularity as a cornerstone of blue-heavy copy and control strategies, it's worth verifying whether a reprint has moved the price before picking up copies.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.