Hana Kami
Creature — Spirit
, Sacrifice this creature: Return target Arcane card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Masters
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #22040
Hana Kami trades itself to return any Arcane spell from your graveyard — a repeatable recursion engine on a 1/1 body that costs just one green mana to play. The ceiling is high in dedicated Arcane shells and effectively zero outside them.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hana Kami sees essentially no play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — the Arcane mechanic never had the critical mass to compete at those tables, and a 1/1 that requires a sacrifice for value can't keep pace with those formats' speed. Pauper is its most plausible non-Commander home, where Arcane commons like Consuming Vortex and Reach Through Mists can form a legitimate loop, though even there the strategy is fringe. Commander is where Hana Kami actually gets to do something: in a dedicated Arcane or Splice deck, recurring a key spell every turn is a meaningful engine, and the low cost to recast it makes the loop cheap to maintain.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Hana Kami is deep bulk — you're paying nearly nothing for a card with a narrow but real application. The price is stable because demand is limited to Arcane brewers, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.