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Kotis, Sibsig Champion

Legendary Creature — Zombie Warrior

Once during each of your turns, you may cast a creature spell from your graveyard by exiling three other cards from your graveyard in addition to paying its other costs.
Whenever one or more creatures you control enter, if one or more of them entered from a graveyard or was cast from a graveyard, put two +1/+1 counters on Kotis.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{B}{G}{U}
Color identity
BGU
Rarity
mythic
Set
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander
Price
$0.47
EDHREC rank
#7485
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Kotis, Sibsig Champion card art
Kotis, Sibsig Champion hits the board and immediately starts converting your graveyard into mana or mill pressure, pairing with sacrifice outlets like Altar of Dementia to generate value every turn a creature dies. The cost is real — it needs a stocked graveyard and a shell that cares about the recursion loop to do anything beyond a vanilla body. In Teval, the Balanced Scale decks, that condition is almost always met.

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Teval, the Balanced Scale

Teval, the Balanced Scale

43.3% of decks · synergy 0.37

Teval, the Balanced Scale triggers off creatures entering and leaving play in exactly the way Kotis, Sibsig Champion rewards — Kotis turns the graveyard churn into a repeatable engine, and the 43% inclusion rate across Teval lists reflects how naturally the two lock together.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Kotis, Sibsig Champion is a Commander card — full stop. The graveyard-value loop it enables is slow and cumulative, which is fine at a 100-card singleton table where games go long enough to cash in. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats on paper, but those formats have no patience for a four-mana creature whose payoff requires setup over several turns. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where it could see fringe play, provided the signature spell feeds the graveyard fast enough to make the engine live.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.47 bulk tier

At $0.47, Kotis, Sibsig Champion sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a four-of if needed, though Commander only ever wants one copy. Bulk rares with a specific niche in one popular commander deck tend to stay at this price floor, so don't expect movement unless Teval, the Balanced Scale breaks into a wider meta.

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