Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
Legendary Creature — Snake Druid
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Spells you cast with mana value 6 or greater have cascade.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Multiverse Legends
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #2463
Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty turns every spell with mana value 6 or greater into a free cascade trigger, which in practice means your top-end spells chain into each other with zero extra mana investment. The cost is a five-mana 3/3 that does nothing until you're casting expensive things — but in the right shell, that payoff is immediate and backbreaking. Averna, the Chaos Bloom is the clearest proof: those two together accelerate and cascade so aggressively that games collapse in a single turn.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Averna, the Chaos Bloom
Averna, the Chaos Bloom cascades on every spell anyway, and Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty adds a second cascade trigger to every spell with mana value 6 or more — stacking these effects means a single haymaker can chain through multiple spells and land drops simultaneously. That's why 95% of Averna decks run Imoti; it's not a synergy piece, it's a core component.
Maelstrom Wanderer
Maelstrom Wanderer already grants two cascades when it enters, and Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty ensures any spell you cascade into that costs 6 or more cascades again on its own. The result is a chain of free spells that Maelstrom Wanderer decks were always trying to manufacture manually.
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists cares about casting big creatures repeatedly, and Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty means every Dinosaur or high-cost creature you cast digs up another threat for free. The cascade trigger smooths out the hand-refill problem that expensive tribal decks commonly face.
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep triggers off casting Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents — almost all of which hit mana value 6 naturally — so Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty converts every sea-monster cast into a cascaded follow-up. The two abilities stack directly on the same class of threats.
Quandrix, the Proof
Quandrix, the Proof scales off casting and copying spells with high mana values, and Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty feeds that engine by triggering cascade on the expensive spells Quandrix already wants to cast. More spells cast means more counters, more value, and more cascade hits compounding in a single turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty is a Commander card through and through — the singleton format's longer games and larger mana pools are exactly the environment where cascading off six-plus-mana spells becomes a reliable engine rather than a once-a-game accident. In Legacy and Vintage, where Imoti is technically legal, the five-mana cost and dependency on casting expensive spells makes it unplayable in those formats' fast, disruption-heavy contexts. Oathbreaker can support it in the right big-mana build, though the 20-life total compresses games enough that the setup cost sometimes isn't worth it. Commander is where Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty belongs: the format rewards the exact kind of top-end snowball that cascade chains produce.
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Price Context
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Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty has no current price data attached to this listing, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer directly for the current market rate before buying. Given its near-universal inclusion in Averna decks and strong representation across several other high-synergy commanders, copies of Imoti tend to hold real demand — verify the price reflects that before trading one away.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.