Nightsoil Kami
Creature — Spirit
Soulshift 5 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 5 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #26591
Nightsoil Kami is a 4/4 trampler for five mana that gets permanently larger every time a creature enters your graveyard — in the right deck, it grows out of bolt range fast and closes games on its own. The cost is that five mana is a real ask for a do-nothing-immediately body, so it earns its slot only in decks that fill the graveyard consistently.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Nightsoil Kami actually lives — graveyard-centric green decks running Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Lathril, Blade of the Elves, or any self-mill strategy can trigger it repeatedly in a single turn cycle and turn it into a legitimate voltron threat. In Pauper it's legal but rarely played; five mana is steep in a format where games end quickly and +1/+1 counters on a single creature don't close fast enough. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but will never touch it — the power ceiling is nowhere near format-legal. Nightsoil Kami is a Commander card through and through, and even there it competes with cheaper payoffs.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Nightsoil Kami is deep bulk — grab a copy without thinking twice if the deck wants it. Price stability is essentially guaranteed at this floor; it won't spike unless a high-profile graveyard commander sends players hunting for every counter-generating body they can find.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.