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Hair-Strung Koto

Artifact

Tap an untapped creature you control: Target player mills a card.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{6}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Champions of Kamigawa
Price
$0.60
EDHREC rank
#21221
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Hair-Strung Koto card art
Hair-Strung Koto turns every card in any graveyard into a free untap trigger for a permanent you control — a continuous, passive engine that costs zero mana once it's on the battlefield. The setup cost is ten mana total, which is steep, but pairing it with Bloodchief Ascension or any mill-heavy strategy means the trigger fires constantly without additional investment.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Hair-Strung Koto is a Commander card through and through — the trigger fires off opponents' graveyards too, which means in a four-player game you're untapping a permanent on virtually every single card drawn, discarded, or milled by anyone at the table. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but practically absent; ten mana across two spells is unplayable in formats where games end on turn two or three. Oathbreaker gives it a smaller table, which cuts the trigger frequency roughly in half and makes the setup cost harder to justify.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.60 bulk tier

At $0.60, Hair-Strung Koto is firmly bulk — low acquisition cost for a card with a genuine niche in graveyard-heavy Commander decks. The price is stable; it won't spike without a reprint or a breakout combo discovery, but it also won't crater further.

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