Koh, the Face Stealer
Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter Spirit
When Koh enters, exile up to one other target creature.
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may exile it.
Pay 1 life: Choose a creature card exiled with Koh.
Koh has all activated and triggered abilities of the last chosen card.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.50
- EDHREC rank
- #10458
Koh, the Face Stealer turns every opponent's death trigger into yours — the moment it hits the table, cards like Sheoldred, the Apocalypse start paying you instead of the player who cast them. The cost is that Koh demands a critical mass of high-value legendary creatures across the table to be worth the slot, which makes it better as a Commander piece than a standalone include.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ketramose, the New Dawn
Ketramose, the New Dawn rewards you for drawing and losing life, and Koh, the Face Stealer feeds that engine by converting opponents' triggered value — lifegain, card draw, drain effects — into fuel for Ketramose's own win conditions.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Koh, the Face Stealer does its best work — four players means four legend-heavy boards to poach triggers from, and the longer games give it time to generate real advantage. In competitive 1v1 formats like Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, it's too slow and too dependent on what opponents are doing to slot into focused strategies. Standard has the creature density to enable it, but the effect reads more as a build-around than a staple. Oathbreaker is a reasonable middle ground — shorter games, but tighter synergy density means the triggers you steal actually matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Sheoldred, the ApocalypseVilis, Broker of BloodKoh, the Face Stealer
Infinite card draw; Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite draw triggers
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Koh, the Face StealerAsmodeus the ArchfiendSkirge Familiar
Infinite self-discard triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite black mana; Near-infinite card draw; Near-infinite looting
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Repay in KindKoh, the Face Stealer
Each opponent loses the game; Near-infinite lifeloss for all players
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Koh, the Face StealerBloodthirster
Infinite combat phases; Infinite combat damage
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Koh, the Face StealerPort Razer
Infinite combat phases; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite combat damage
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Current price
$0.50 bulk tier
At $0.50, Koh, the Face Stealer sits firmly in bulk territory, which is accurate for a card that requires significant setup to pay off. Bulk rares with narrow build-around requirements rarely climb unless a breakout commander pushes them into the spotlight, so treat this as a pickup for the deck that wants it, not a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.