Kotose, the Silent Spider
Legendary Creature — Human Ninja
When Kotose enters, exile target card other than a basic land card from an opponent's graveyard. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles. For as long as you control Kotose, you may play one of the exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.48
- EDHREC rank
- #17678
Kotose, the Silent Spider hits the table and immediately strips one copy of any nonland card from your opponent's hand, then lets you cast that card using their mana — that's hand disruption and resource theft stapled to a 5/5 deathtouch body. The ask is five mana, which is steep, but the swing in card advantage justifies every pip.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Kotose, the Silent Spider does its best work — multiplayer tables mean you always have a target-rich hand to rifle through, and casting an opponent's bomb with their mana type is a genuine tempo swing that can reshape a game. In Legacy and Vintage the competition at five mana is brutal; reactive decks have better disruption and proactive decks have already won by turn three, so Kotose rarely sees play there. Modern and Pioneer are similarly hostile — five-mana creatures need an immediate, game-ending effect to survive, and while deathtouch plus hand theft is strong, it doesn't close games fast enough to compete with the format's top threats.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.48 bulk tier
At $0.48, Kotose, the Silent Spider sits firmly in bulk territory, which undersells how much text is on the card for the price. It holds value as a Commander inclusion — unique effects with no direct reprint competition tend to stay in the $0.50–$1.00 range rather than bottoming out further.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.