Kaito, Dancing Shadow
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}{B}
- Type
- Legendary Planeswalker — Kaito
- Loyalty
- 3
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One #340 (rare)
- Price
- $0.40 USD
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, you may return one of them to its owner's hand. If you do, you may activate loyalty abilities of Kaito twice this turn rather than only once.
+1: Up to one target creature can't attack or block until your next turn.
0: Draw a card.
−2: Create a 2/2 colorless Drone artifact creature token with deathtouch and "When this token leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life."
Kaito, Dancing Shadow has 5 printings, first in Phyrexia: All Will Be One (2023). EDHREC ranks it #7,493 among Commander cards. It appears most in Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow decks (4,510 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Kaito, Dancing Shadow most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow: 4,510 decks
- Satoru Umezawa: 3,152 decks
- Goro-Goro and Satoru: 2,968 decks
- Etrata, the Silencer: 753 decks
- Splinter, Radical Rat: 578 decks
- Taeko, the Patient Avalanche: 332 decks
- Satoru, the Infiltrator: 327 decks
- Venser, Corpse Puppet: 133 decks
Often played with Kaito, Dancing Shadow
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Even if Kaito's triggered ability triggers more than once in the same turn (perhaps because one or more attackers had first strike, multiple players were dealt combat damage by your creatures, or there were multiple combats), and you return an attacking creature to hand each time, you won't be able to activate Kaito's loyalty abilities more than twice that turn. That is, Kaito's triggered ability is not additive.
- : If you return a creature to its owner's hand with Kaito's first ability, you may activate a single loyalty ability of Kaito twice, or you may activate two different loyalty abilities.