Kamahl's Druidic Vow
Legendary Sorcery
(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)
Look at the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of land and/or legendary permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest into your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dominaria
- Price
- $0.81
- EDHREC rank
- #5749
Kamahl's Druidic Vow can dump an enormous number of legendary permanents onto the battlefield in a single turn — the ceiling is absurd in any deck running a deep legendary suite. The cost is real: you need both mana and legends in hand to hit X high enough to matter, which makes it dead in the early game and exceptional in the late one. Kethis, the Hidden Hand turns the card into a must-answer threat by making every legendary spell in the graveyard fuel the next cast.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kethis, the Hidden Hand
Kethis, the Hidden Hand appears in over 69% of Kamahl's Druidic Vow decks, and the pairing is obvious — Kethis lets you recast legendary spells from the graveyard, so anything the Vow misses or mills can come back, and every legend already in play raises X higher on the next attempt.
Reyhan, Last of the Abzan // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful
Reyhan, Last of the Abzan // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful runs a legendary-dense package by design, and Kamahl's Druidic Vow doubles as a legend-seeding engine that puts +1/+1 counters on Yoshimaru with every hit.
Captain Sisay
Captain Sisay tutors up the legendary permanents that make Kamahl's Druidic Vow worth casting, and the Vow in turn unloads the hand or library full of targets Sisay has been assembling all game.
Carth the Lion
Carth the Lion decks are already stacking planeswalkers, and Kamahl's Druidic Vow is one of the cleanest ways to drop several of them onto the battlefield simultaneously — each one entering with full loyalty.
Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh
Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh rewards flooding the board with legendary permanents, and Kamahl's Druidic Vow is one of the most efficient ways to do exactly that in a single action.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Kamahl's Druidic Vow actually lives — 100-card decks built around legendary themes give it the density and the late-game mana needed to go off. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but effectively unplayed; the formats move too fast for a sorcery that needs X to reach four or five before it's doing anything meaningful. Modern and Pioneer offer similar problems with a narrower legendary pool, and the lack of a consistent payoff commander means the card has no real home there. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card adjacent format where it could find a niche, specifically under a legendary-matters oathbreaker with enough mana acceleration to cast it for a relevant X on curve.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.81 bulk tier
At $0.81, Kamahl's Druidic Vow is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a budget bin. That price reflects low cross-format demand rather than low power; in the right legendary-dense Commander deck it overperforms its cost by a wide margin.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Kethis, the Hidden Hand
- Reyhan, Last of the Abzan // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful
- Captain Sisay
- Carth the Lion
- Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.