Venerable Kumo
Creature — Spirit
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Soulshift 4 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #28243
Venerable Kumo is a five-mana 2/3 with reach and a Spirit-typal recursive trigger — the body is underpowered for the cost in almost every context. Unless you're deep in a Spirit synergy build that specifically rewards this kind of grind, it doesn't earn the slot.
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 |
Venerable Kumo is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Pauper it competes against commons with far better rate for five mana, and it won't make the cut there. In Commander it finds the most plausible home in Spirit-tribal lists where the recursive loop has some synergy scaffolding to land on, but even then a 2/3 reach for five is a tough sell at a table where the format's card quality is high. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Venerable Kumo is deep bulk — you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because you specifically need it. That price reflects the demand accurately and isn't going anywhere.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.