Card

Karador, Ghost Chieftain

Legendary Creature — Centaur Spirit


This spell costs less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
During each of your turns, you may cast a creature spell from your graveyard.

"Death tried to uncrown me. But now I return, king of a greater realm."


  Commander Legends (CMR)
#521, Mythic Rare

Illustrated by: Todd Lockwood
Multiverse ID: 503324

Karador, Ghost Chieftain Commander decks
Not Legal Alchemy BO1
Not Legal Standard BO1
Not Legal Brawl
Not Legal Explorer BO1
Not Legal Historic BO1
Not Legal Modern
Not Legal Pauper
Not Legal Pioneer
Not Legal Traditional Standard
Not Legal Timeless BO1
Not Legal Traditional Alchemy
Not Legal Traditional Explorer
Not Legal Traditional Historic
Not Legal Traditional Timeless

Rulings

  • 2011-09-22
    If Karador is your commander, calculate any cost increases, including the one based on the number of times you’ve cast Karador from the command zone, before considering Karador’s cost-reduction ability.
  • 2011-09-22
    If you somehow cast Karador from a graveyard, its cost-reduction ability won’t count itself.
  • 2011-09-22
    Although Karador’s second ability allows you to cast one creature card from your graveyard on each of your turns, it doesn’t change when you can cast that card. Unless it has flash, the creature card must be cast during one of your main phases when the stack is empty.
  • 2011-09-22
    Karador’s second ability doesn’t affect the costs you need to pay to cast that creature spell.
  • 2011-09-22
    Karador’s first ability functions on the stack. Karador’s second ability functions only on the battlefield.
  • 2011-09-22
    If you cast a creature card from your graveyard, then Karador leaves the battlefield, then returns to the battlefield, you may cast another creature card from your graveyard that turn. If you didn’t cast a creature card from your graveyard while Karador was on the battlefield the first time, you may still cast only one creature card from your graveyard when it returns to the battlefield.
  • 2020-11-10
    To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you’re paying, add any cost increases (such as the commander tax), then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Karador). The converted mana cost of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
  • 2020-11-10
    You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions of the spell you cast from your graveyard.
  • 2020-11-10
    You must pay the costs to cast that spell. If it has an alternative cost, you may cast it for that cost instead.
  • 2020-11-10
    Once you begin to cast the spell, losing control of Karador won’t affect the spell. You can finish casting it as normal.
  • 2020-11-10
    If multiple effects allow you to play a card from your graveyard, you must announce which permission you’re using as you begin to play the card.
  • 2020-11-10
    If a creature card is put into your graveyard during your main phase and the stack is empty, you have a chance to cast it before any player may attempt to remove that card from your graveyard.
  • 2020-11-10
    If you cast one creature spell from your graveyard and then have a new Karador come under your control in the same turn, you may cast another creature spell from your graveyard that turn.
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