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Ketramose, the New Dawn

Legendary Creature — God

Menace, lifelink, indestructible
Ketramose can't attack or block unless there are seven or more cards in exile.
Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from graveyards and/or the battlefield during your turn, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{W}{B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Aetherdrift Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#7721
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Ketramose, the New Dawn card art
Ketramose, the New Dawn turns incidental life gain into a repeatable card-advantage engine — every time you hit a life-payment threshold, you draw, and in formats full of fetch lands and shock lands that clock ticks fast. The cost is real: five mana for a legendary creature that does nothing the turn it lands means it dies to removal before paying off, and Currency Converter and Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar already fill adjacent roles in many lists.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar

Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar

24.3% of decks · synergy 0.23

Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar is built around paying life repeatedly as a resource, so Ketramose, the New Dawn slots in as a draw engine that converts every activation into cards — the two commanders share the same axis so tightly that Ketramose functions as a second copy of the payoff the deck already wants.

02
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year

Abigale, Eloquent First-Year

14.6% of decks · synergy 0.13

Abigale, Eloquent First-Year rewards stacking spell-based life loss, and Ketramose, the New Dawn catches every trigger in that chain and converts it into card draw, extending the chain further than Abigale can on her own.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Ketramose, the New Dawn does its best work — a 100-card singleton environment with long games means the draw triggers compound over multiple turns, and white-black life-payment decks have enough redundancy to trigger it reliably. In Standard and Pioneer it's legal but competing against faster threats and more efficient two- and three-drop card advantage, so the five-mana ask is a steep climb for a card that doesn't immediately affect the board. Modern has the same problem with more urgency — decks running shock lands and fetch lands will trigger it, but the format punishes anything that needs a full turn cycle to do anything. Legacy and Vintage are theoretically open but practically closed; the power ceiling is too high for a five-mana do-nothing-until-next-turn creature.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Ketramose, the New Dawn isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate before buying in. Given the card's narrow competitive footprint — Commander-primary with modest crossover — it's unlikely to carry a significant premium outside of early-release spikes.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.