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Teardrop Kami

Creature — Spirit

Sacrifice this creature: You may tap or untap target creature.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Betrayers of Kamigawa
Price
$0.23
EDHREC rank
#18781
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Teardrop Kami card art
Teardrop Kami puts a repeatable counterspell on a 1/1 body — tap it during your upkeep to counter any spell that targets a permanent you control, no mana required. The upkeep timing is a real constraint, but in the right shell, particularly alongside Adarkar Valkyrie to untap it at end of turn, that restriction largely disappears.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Teardrop Kami sees essentially zero play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — formats where a tapped 1/1 that counters spells only on your upkeep can't compete with efficient interaction on the stack at any time. Pauper is where it occasionally surfaces, since cheap permanents that generate card-advantage-adjacent effects are scarcer at common, but it still demands a dedicated build to be worth running. Commander is the format that rewards it most, where the slower pace makes upkeep triggers meaningful and flicker or untap engines turn Teardrop Kami into a soft protective lock.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.23 bulk tier

At $0.23, Teardrop Kami is deep bulk — you're not buying this for speculative value, you're buying it because it fills a specific role in a specific deck. Price is stable and likely stays there given the narrow use case.

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