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Kentaro, the Smiling Cat
bokBetrayers of Kamigawa#13rare
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All Printings
1 printings across 1 sets
Printings
This is the only printing — Betrayers of Kamigawa #13.
Card details
- Artist
- Donato Giancola
- Frame
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- Border
- black
- Security stamp
- —
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyLegal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHLegal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
Oracle text
Legendary Creature — Human Samurai
Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
You may pay 
rather than pay the mana cost for Samurai spells you cast, where X is that spell's mana value.
P/T2/1
Abilities
Bushido 1
Alt. CostYou may pay rather than pay the mana cost for Samurai spells you cast, where X is that spell's mana value.
rather than pay the mana cost for Samurai spells you cast, where X is that spell's mana value.Plays as
Cost Alternative
Flavor & art
“"The bonds of bushido will draw the dishonored back someday, and I will be there waiting."”
Illustrated by
Donato Giancola
Rulings
- WotCFeb 1, 2005
Kentaro doesn’t change when you can cast Samurai. It just makes Samurai castable for generic mana.
- WotCFeb 1, 2005
Kentaro’s ability only applies while Kentaro is on the battlefield. You have to pay for Kentaro normally. It still costs {1}{W}.