Kathari Remnant
Creature — Bird Skeleton
Flying
: Regenerate this creature.
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.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Alara Reborn
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #20397
Kathari Remnant enters as a 2/2 flyer with unearth, meaning it can claw back from the graveyard for one more attack before it's exiled for good — the recursion is the card, not the body. At five mana for the front end and two more for the unearth, you're paying a steep total for a creature that trades card permanence for two bites of the combat apple.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Kathari Remnant is a Commander card through and through — the formats where it's legal outside EDH (Legacy, Vintage, Modern) have zero interest in a five-mana 2/2 with a one-time recursion rider. In Commander, it finds a home in Grixis and five-color graveyard strategies that want cheap unearth triggers or care about cycling synergies, where the bird-skeleton type line occasionally matters. The unearth clause specifically rewards aristocrats and sacrifice loops, letting you extract one final death trigger before the card exits permanently. Outside of those narrow synergy shells, Kathari Remnant doesn't make the cut.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Kathari Remnant is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a commons box, not a binder. Demand is too narrow for the price to move meaningfully in either direction, so treat it as a free inclusion when it fits rather than a pickup with any upside.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.