Kaheera, the Orphanguard

Printings

  • Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO)#224
  • Multiverse Legends (MUL)#112
  • Multiverse Legends (MUL)#177
  • Magic Online Promos (PRM)#80861
  • Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos (PIKO)#224p
  • Multiverse Legends (MUL)#177z
  • Multiverse Legends (MUL)#47
  • Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos (PIKO)#224s
  • Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO)#353

Kaheera, the Orphanguard

Card Information

Type: Legendary Creature — Cat Beast

Mana Cost: 1Green or White manaGreen or White mana

CMC: 3

Part of the Reserved List: No

Color Identity: Mana symbol for GMana symbol for W

Set: Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO)

Rarity: Rare

Collector Number: 224

Oracle Text

Companion — Each creature card in your starting deck is a Cat, Elemental, Nightmare, Dinosaur, or Beast card. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) Vigilance Each other creature you control that's a Cat, Elemental, Nightmare, Dinosaur, or Beast gets +1/+1 and has vigilance.

Keywords

VigilanceCompanion

Format Legalities

duel(Legal)
brawl(Legal)
penny(Legal)
predh(Not Legal)
future(Not Legal)
legacy(Legal)
modern(Legal)
pauper(Not Legal)
alchemy(Not Legal)
pioneer(Legal)
vintage(Legal)
historic(Legal)
standard(Not Legal)
timeless(Legal)
commander(Legal)
gladiator(Legal)
oldschool(Not Legal)
premodern(Not Legal)
oathbreaker(Legal)
standardbrawl(Not Legal)
paupercommander(Not Legal)

Card Rulings

  1. June 1, 2020

    Once you put your companion into your hand, it behaves like any other card you’ve brought into the game. For example, if it’s countered or destroyed, it’s put into your graveyard, remaining in the game.

    Source: scryfall
  2. June 1, 2020

    Paying {3} to put your companion into your hand is a special action. It doesn't use the stack and players can't respond to it. Once you take this action, you may cast that card if it's legal to do so before any other player can take actions.

    Source: wotc
  3. June 1, 2020

    If you reveal a companion outside the game, for as long as it remains there, you may pay {3} any time you could cast a sorcery (that is, you have priority during your main phase and the stack is empty). Once you do, you put it into your hand and behaves like any other card you've brought into the game. For example, if it's discarded, countered, or destroyed, it's put into your graveyard, remaining in the game. This is a change from previous rules.

    Source: wotc
  4. June 1, 2020

    Wizards of the Coast has issued functional errata for the Companion mechanic. Instead of casting companions from outside the game: Once per game, any time you could cast a sorcery (during your main phase when the stack is empty), you can pay {3} to put your companion from your sideboard into your hand. This is a special action, not an activated ability. It happens immediately and can’t be responded to. It can’t be countered or stopped by cards like Phyrexian Revoker. For more information please see https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/june-1-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcement

    Source: scryfall
  5. April 17, 2020

    Before shuffling your deck to become your library, you may reveal one card from outside the game to be your companion if your starting deck meets the requirements of the companion ability. You can't reveal more than one. It remains revealed outside the game as the game begins.

    Source: wotc
  6. April 17, 2020

    You may have one companion in the Commander variant. Your deck, including your commander, must meet its companion requirement. Your companion is not one of your one hundred cards.

    Source: wotc
  7. April 17, 2020

    The requirements of the companion ability apply only to your starting deck. They do not apply to your sideboard.

    Source: wotc
  8. April 17, 2020

    If more than one player wishes to reveal a companion, the starting player does so first, and players proceed in turn order. Once a player has chosen not to reveal a companion, that player can't change their mind.

    Source: wotc
  9. April 17, 2020

    The companion's other abilities apply only if the creature is on the battlefield. They have no effect while the companion is outside the game.

    Source: wotc
  10. April 17, 2020

    Paying {3} to put your companion into your hand is a special action. It doesn't use the stack and players can't respond to it. Once you take this action, you may cast that card if it's legal to do so before any other player can take actions.

    Source: wotc
  11. April 17, 2020

    A creature that's more than one of the five types gets +1/+1 only once from Kaheera's last ability.

    Source: wotc
  12. April 17, 2020

    The companion ability has no effect if the card is in your starting deck and creates no restriction on putting a card with a companion ability into your starting deck. For example, Zirda may be in your starting deck even if your other permanent cards don't all have activated abilities.

    Source: wotc
  13. April 17, 2020

    If you reveal a companion outside the game, for as long as it remains there, you may pay {3} any time you could cast a sorcery (that is, you have priority during your main phase and the stack is empty). Once you do, you put it into your hand and behaves like any other card you've brought into the game. For example, if it's discard, countered, or destroyed, it's put into your graveyard, remaining in the game. This is a change from previous rules.

    Source: wotc
  14. April 17, 2020

    Creature cards in your deck may be a mix of the five creature types that Kaheera cares about. They may also have additional types, as long as each creature card is at least one of those five. Noncreature cards may have any subtypes.

    Source: wotc
  15. April 17, 2020

    Your companion begins the game outside the game. In tournament play, this means your sideboard. In casual play, it's simply a card you own that's not in your starting deck.

    Source: wotc

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