Kokusho, the Evening Star

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit

Mana cost: {4}{B}{B}

How we read this card

Flying
When Kokusho dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

triggered — makes each opponent lose 5 life

triggered — gains you the life lost this way life

triggered — drains each opponent

What a deck led by this card wants

Causes: make a player lose life, gain life.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this (Kokusho is one).

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put Kokusho, the Evening Star onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Polymorph — Polymorph can put Kokusho, the Evening Star onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put Kokusho, the Evening Star onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put Kokusho, the Evening Star onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put Kokusho, the Evening Star onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put Kokusho, the Evening Star onto the battlefield from your library
  7. Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put Kokusho, the Evening Star onto the battlefield from your library
  8. Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put Kokusho, the Evening Star onto the battlefield from your library
  9. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put Kokusho, the Evening Star onto the battlefield from your library
  10. Transmogrify — Transmogrify can put Kokusho, the Evening Star onto the battlefield from your library

8 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a Dragon attacks — 474 cards in the game can cause this (Kokusho is one).

When Kokusho, the Evening Star attacks:

  1. Silumgar, the Drifting Death — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  2. Utvara Hellkite — makes a token
  3. The Ur-Dragon — draws you that many cards
  4. Atarka, World Render — grants double strike
  5. Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury — gives +1/+0
  6. Invasion of Tarkir // Defiant Thundermaw — deals 2 damage
  7. Ojutai, Soul of Winter — taps a creature, artifact, enchantment, planeswalker or battle an opponent controls
  8. Dromoka, the Eternal — puts a counter on a permanent

a Dragon deals combat damage — 474 cards in the game can cause this (Kokusho is one).

When Kokusho, the Evening Star deals combat damage:

  1. Parapet Thrasher — triggers
  2. Broodcaller Scourge — puts a permanent onto the battlefield
  3. Zurgo and Ojutai — triggers

a nontoken Dragon enters the battlefield — 484 cards in the game can cause this (Kokusho is one).

When Kokusho, the Evening Star enters:

  1. Lathliss, Dragon Queen — makes a token
  2. Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm — makes a token

a Dragon enters the battlefield — 524 cards in the game can cause this (Kokusho is one).

When Kokusho, the Evening Star enters:

  1. Dragon Tempest — deals damage
  2. Bloomvine Regent // Claim Territory — gains you 3 life
  3. Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Ganax, Astral Hunter — makes a token
  5. Scourge of Valkas — deals damage
  6. Bladewing's Thrall — returns itself from the graveyard
  7. Sarkhan, Soul Aflame — copies a permanent
  8. Teeming Dragonstorm — triggers
  9. Corroding Dragonstorm — triggers
  10. Roiling Dragonstorm — triggers

4 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken Spirit deals combat damage — 725 cards in the game can cause this (Kokusho is one).

  1. Millicent, Restless Revenant — When Kokusho, the Evening Star deals combat damage, Millicent, Restless Revenant makes a token

a nontoken Spirit enters the battlefield — 727 cards in the game can cause this (Kokusho is one).

  1. Baboon Spirit — When Kokusho, the Evening Star enters, Baboon Spirit makes a token

a Spirit enters the battlefield — 863 cards in the game can cause this (Kokusho is one).

When Kokusho, the Evening Star enters:

  1. Mausoleum Wanderer — gets +1/+1
  2. Drogskol Cavalry — gains you 2 life
  3. Vanguard of the Restless — returns itself from the graveyard
  4. Nebelgast Herald — taps a creature an opponent controls

life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Kokusho is one).

When Kokusho, the Evening Star gains life:

  1. Dina, Soul Steeper — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — draws you that many cards
  3. South Wind Avatar — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Rodolf Duskbringer — grants indestructible
  5. Fiendish Panda — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Veinwitch Coven — brings a card back
  7. Cleric Class — puts a counter on a creature
  8. Lich's Mastery — draws you that many cards
  9. Wall of Limbs — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  10. Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer — triggers

84 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Kokusho is one).

When a permanent makes a player lose life thanks to Kokusho, the Evening Star:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — raises your speed
  2. Zahur, Glory's Past — raises your speed
  3. Mendicant Core, Guidelight — raises your speed
  4. Aether Syphon — raises your speed
  5. Vnwxt, Verbose Host — raises your speed
  6. Embalmed Ascendant — raises your speed
  7. Slick Imitator — raises your speed
  8. Nesting Bot — raises your speed
  9. Howlsquad Heavy — raises your speed
  10. Hour of Victory — raises your speed

46 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Kokusho is one).

  1. Invisible Woman — When Kokusho, the Evening Star attacks, Invisible Woman triggers

126 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.