Waxmane Baku
Creature — Spirit
Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on this creature.
, Remove X ki counters from this creature: Tap X target creatures.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Salvat 2005
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #24201
Waxmane Baku taps down any number of target creatures when you cash in its ki counters, making it a repeatable mass-tap engine in the right shell. The cost is steep: you need a steady stream of Spirit or Arcane spells to load it up, and without that support it's a vanilla 2/2 for three mana.
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 |
Waxmane Baku is a Pauper-legal common, and that's where it comes closest to relevance — Spirits and Arcane synergies have enough density at common to keep ki counters flowing. In Commander, it shows up almost exclusively in dedicated Spirits builds like Kykar, Wind's Fury or Hinata, Dawn-Crowned, where the Arcane and Spirit spell volume is high enough to make the tap ability genuinely threatening. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; three mana for a conditional tapper doesn't register in those formats. Oathbreaker parallels Commander — playable only if the planeswalker and signature spell commit you to the Spirit or Arcane theme.
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Price Context
Current price
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Price data isn't available for Waxmane Baku right now, so check Scryfall or TCGplayer for current listings. As a common from a lightly-opened set, copies tend to be cheap when they surface, but supply is thin enough that availability can be the real constraint.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.