Kotis, the Fangkeeper
Kotis, the Fangkeeper: Legendary Creature - Zombie Warrior, Tarkir: Dragonstorm. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}{G}{U}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Legendary Creature - Zombie Warrior
- Colour identity
- Blue, black and green (UBG)
- Power / toughness
- 2/1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)
- Released
- 2025-04-11
- Collector number
- 202
- Artist
- Evyn Fong
- Keywords
- Indestructible
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About Kotis, the Fangkeeper
Kotis, the Fangkeeper is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue, black and green legendary creature from Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM), an expansion set released in April 2025. It is collector number 202 in that set, with art by Evyn Fong. It costs {1}{B}{G}{U} (one generic, one blue, one black and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 2/1 creature. Its colour identity is blue, black and green. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets. It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.35 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
Indestructible
Whenever Kotis deals combat damage to a player, exile the top X cards of their library, where X is the amount of damage dealt. You may cast any number of spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.35 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Kotis, the Fangkeeper by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Kotis, the Fangkeeper
Kotis, the Fangkeeper has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tarkir: Dragonstorm Promos (PTDM) #202p | Rare | 2025 |
| Tarkir: Dragonstorm Promos (PTDM) #202s | Rare | 2025 |
| Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) #362 | Rare | 2025 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Kotis, the Fangkeeper, newest first.
- You cast the spells from among the exiled cards while Kotis’s last ability is resolving and still on the stack. You can’t wait to cast them later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on the card’s type are ignored.
- If any of the spells you cast has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- Since you are using an alternative cost to cast the spells, you can’t pay any other alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the spells have any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
- If an exiled card has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
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