Kami of Transience
Creature — Spirit
Trample
Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
At the beginning of each end step, if an enchantment was put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #10322
Kami of Transience grows every time a permanent hits your graveyard and recurs itself for free whenever it enters — that's a recursive threat and a payoff engine on a single two-mana body. Thrun, Breaker of Silence runs it as a complementary hexproof beater that turns the same enchantment-heavy gameplan into a second clock, and the two together make green's attrition shell surprisingly hard to answer.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Thrun, Breaker of Silence
Thrun, Breaker of Silence plays Kami of Transience as a mirror-image threat — both are cheap, hexproof, and grow off the enchantment payoffs Thrun already wants, so Kami fills the curve while doubling as a second resilient win condition.
Sythis, Harvest's Hand
Sythis, Harvest's Hand draws a card every time you cast an enchantment, which means Kami of Transience's self-recurrence turns into repeated card draw triggers — each time Kami returns to the battlefield via its own ability, it's another enchantment cast feeding the engine.
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 |
In Commander, Kami of Transience earns its slot in any green enchantress or graveyard-value shell — the recursive loop with permanents cycling through the yard is exactly what those decks want, and hexproof makes it a reliable long-game presence. In Modern and Pioneer, the two-mana investment is reasonable but the payoff is slow for those formats' clocks; it sees fringe play in Enchantress sideboards but rarely maindeck. Legacy has faster threats and better recursive options, so Kami of Transience doesn't compete there in a meaningful way.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Kami of Transience isn't confirmed at the moment, so check Scryfall or Card Kingdom for a live quote before buying. Given its niche but real demand in Commander enchantress builds, it tends to sit in the budget-to-mid range — worth picking up if you're building the archetype regardless of slight price fluctuations.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Thrun, Breaker of Silence
- Sythis, Harvest's Hand
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.