Pain Kami
Creature — Spirit
, Sacrifice this creature: It deals X damage to target creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Salvat 2005
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #28655
Pain Kami trades itself to deal damage equal to its power to any target — a 2/2 body that converts into 2 damage on demand, all for three mana. The rate is too slow and too small to compete; better sacrifice outlets and better pingers exist at every price point.
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 |
Pain Kami is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, a 2/2 that pings for 2 on sacrifice doesn't move the needle — you'd need to be in a dedicated sacrifice shell already running better payoffs, and even then Pain Kami rarely makes the cut. In Legacy and Vintage the card is simply outclassed by everything else available. Modern has more than enough redundancy in aggressive and sacrifice strategies that a three-mana 2/2 with a marginal ability never registers.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Pain Kami isn't currently available, but given its negligible competitive presence it almost certainly sits at bulk — expect to find it in a bulk bin for under $0.25. There's no meaningful demand driver that would change that calculus.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.