Kami of Restless Shadows
Creature — Spirit
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Return up to one target Ninja or Rogue creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #20202
Kami of Restless Shadows puts a repeatable creature tutor on the board — pay three mana, sacrifice a creature, and pull any creature card from your library straight to hand. The cost of a sacrifice outlet and three mana per activation is real, but in any deck already generating expendable bodies, that's a price worth paying.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Kami of Restless Shadows earns its slot — sacrifice-matters decks like Prossh, Skyraider of Kher or Meren of Clan Nel Toth treat it as a repeatable tutor engine that converts token fodder into whatever creature answer or combo piece the board demands. In Pauper, it's a legitimate value engine in aristocrats shells where common-legal tutors are scarce, and the three-mana activation is less punishing in a slower format. Competitive Legacy and Vintage have no use for it — the activation cost is glacial next to Imperial Seal or Demonic Tutor. Modern and Pioneer ignore it for the same reason; creature tutors at this speed don't compete with Eladamri's Call or Chord of Calling.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Kami of Restless Shadows is deep bulk — pick it up without thinking twice. Repeatable creature tutors at this price point don't tend to climb unless a breakout commander pushes demand, but you're buying it to play, not hold.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.