Kiku, Night's Flower
Legendary Creature — Human Assassin
, 
: Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $5.21
- EDHREC rank
- #15827
Kiku, Night's Flower puts a repeatable kill switch on the board: pay two mana, tap her, and any creature deals damage to itself equal to its own power — a clean answer to any high-power threat that skips the combat step entirely. The cost is real: she's a 1/2 that needs to untap, making her vulnerable and slow, but in the right shell she earns every slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ramses, Assassin Lord
Ramses, Assassin Lord wins the game outright when an opponent's creature dies by assassination, and Kiku, Night's Flower's activated ability qualifies — she turns every untap step into a potential game-winning trigger without needing to connect in combat.
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 |
Kiku, Night's Flower is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but she's almost exclusively a Commander card — repeated tap effects scale poorly in 1v1 where opponents can answer her immediately and never give her a second activation. In Commander, three opponents and slower board states give her the time and targets she needs to generate real value. Legacy and Vintage have far more efficient removal and combo answers, so she won't see competitive play there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Prodigal Sorcerer and its variants deal only one damage on tap, which won't reliably kill large creatures the way Kiku, Night's Flower does — they're cheaper but strictly weaker at the same job. Pestilence and Pyrohemia hit all creatures repeatedly at instant speed for less mana per activation, but they require damage management and can't surgically target a single threat the way Kiku can.
Price Context
Current price
$5.21 mid tier
At $5.21, Kiku, Night's Flower sits in the mid tier — justifiable for a unique repeatable removal effect that nothing else quite replicates in black. It's a niche card with a narrow home, so demand stays modest and the price is unlikely to spike without a reprint reduction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.