Kemuri-Onna
Creature — Spirit
When this creature enters, target player discards a card.
Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may return this creature to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #25124
Kemuri-Onna puts a Spirit on the board and forces a discard every time you cast a Spirit — that's a repeatable hand-attack engine stapled to a body, and it only asks you to build around a type your deck probably already wants. The cost is real: five mana for a 3/3 is below rate, and the payoff only compounds if you're casting Spirits consistently enough to make opponents' hands irrelevant before they stabilize. Pair it with Mana Echoes in a Spirit-dense shell and the math gets lopsided fast.
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 |
Commander is where Kemuri-Onna actually functions — the multiplayer environment means each discard trigger strips a card from three opponents simultaneously, which turns a modest rate into a meaningful political and strategic lever. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; five mana for a 3/3 with a conditional discard trigger does nothing those formats care about, and no competitive Spirit shell there wants it. Modern has the card pool to support Spirit synergies, but Kemuri-Onna is too slow and too small to compete with what that format demands. Stick to Commander, specifically in Spirit-tribal or token-generating builds where the trigger fires enough times to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Mana EchoesHaru-OnnaKemuri-OnnaChromatic Orrery
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite looting; Infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite colored mana; Near-infinite colorless mana; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite storm count
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Mana EchoesHaru-OnnaKemuri-OnnaMycosynth Lattice
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite looting; Infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite colored mana; Near-infinite colorless mana; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Kemuri-Onna is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move without a high-profile Spirit commander pushing it into the spotlight.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.