Is Promised Kannushi good in Commander?

Promised Kannushi

Creature — Human Druid

Soulshift 7 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 7 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

CMC: 1
Mana cost
Color identity: G
Rarity: common
Set: Saviors of Kamigawa
Price: $0.11
EDHREC rank: #23053

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Promised Kannushi lets you look at the top card of your library and put it on the bottom — a free, repeatable scry effect stapled to a one-mana 1/1 that snowballs with sacrifice outlets. The ceiling is combo territory: pair it with Phyrexian Altar and any death-trigger loop and you're sculpting your deck in real time while the engine runs.

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 Promised Kannushi earns its slot, specifically in Kamigawa Spirit and sacrifice synergy builds that reward repeated death triggers and library manipulation. In Pauper it's a legal common with a real role in tempo and value shells that can loop sacrifice effects, though the lack of raw power keeps it fringe. Legacy and Vintage have it legal but no competitive archetype wants a 1/1 with a soft scry over faster engines — it simply doesn't register there. Modern is the same story: the effect is real but too slow and too small to compete with what those formats demand at one mana.

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