Thousand-legged Kami
Creature — Spirit
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
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #26294
Thousand-legged Kami puts a 4/4 trampler on the board for eight mana — a rate that was mediocre a decade ago and is unplayable now. The soulshift 7 recursion rider doesn't compensate for a body that costs nearly twice what comparable threats demand.
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 |
Thousand-legged Kami is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, eight mana for a vanilla-adjacent 4/4 with a conditional recursion trigger is outclassed by nearly every fatty at that slot. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage all have threat bars so high that Thousand-legged Kami wouldn't survive a deck-building conversation. Oathbreaker follows the same logic — the format's condensed game length makes an eight-drop with no immediate board impact a liability.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Thousand-legged Kami is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a box and never leaves it. There's no demand pressure that would move this price, so don't expect it to appreciate.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.