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Koth of the Hammer

{2}{R}{R}

Legendary Planeswalker — Koth

DDIDuel Decks: Venser vs. Koth#44mythic
Finishes
Foil
Border
black
Frame
2003
Pull rate
about 1 per booster
Illustrator
Eric Deschamps
Found in
Duel Deck Venser vs Koth Koth Deck
Printings3EDHREC rank#9,811
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality

Constructed

StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperNot legal

Commander

CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersNot legal

Arena

AlchemyNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
BrawlNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
GladiatorNot legal

Other

PremodernNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulLegal
Future StandardNot legal
+1: Untap target Mountain. It becomes a 4/4 red Elemental creature until end of turn. It's still a land. −2: Add {R} for each Mountain you control. −5: You get an emblem with "Mountains you control have '{T}: This land deals 1 damage to any target.'"
Loyalty 3
Plays as:
Planeswalker Removal
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Rulings

5 · latest Jan 1, 2011
  • WotCJan 1, 2011

    Emblems behave similarly to enchantments: They have an ability that, in a general sense, continually affects the game. The primary difference between them is that emblems aren’t permanents and don’t exist on the battlefield. Nothing in the game can remove an emblem, simply because no other spell or ability references them. Once you get an emblem, you keep it for the rest of the game. Emblems have no color, name, card type, or other characteristics beyond the listed ability.

  • WotCJan 1, 2011

    If Koth’s first ability animates a Mountain that came under your control that turn, it will have “summoning sickness” and be unable to attack. It will also be unable to be tapped to activate an ability with the {T} symbol in its cost, such as the Mountain’s mana ability or the ability granted to it by Koth’s emblem.

  • WotCJan 1, 2011

    Koth’s emblem grants an activated ability to each Mountain you control at any given time for the rest of the game. It will continuously check which permanents you control are Mountains to determine what has the ability. For example, a Mountain that comes under your control later in the game will have the ability, while a Mountain you controlled at the time the emblem was created, but that later came under the control of another player, will no longer have the ability.

  • WotCJan 1, 2011

    Koth’s first ability can target any Mountain, including an untapped Mountain and/or a Mountain another player controls.

  • WotCJan 1, 2011

    Loyalty abilities can’t be mana abilities. Koth’s second ability uses the stack and can be countered or otherwise responded to. Like all loyalty abilities, it can be activated only once per turn, during your main phase, when the stack is empty, and only if no other loyalty abilities of this permanent have been activated this turn.