Josu Vess, Lich Knight card art

Josu Vess, Lich Knight

Legendary Creature — Zombie Knight MV 4

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

Kicker 5 (You may pay an additional {5}{B} as you cast this spell.)

Menace

When Josu Vess enters, if he was kicked, create eight 2/2 black Zombie Knight creature tokens with menace.

Rulings

6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-11-08

    If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.

  • 2024-11-08

    If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."

  • 2024-11-08

    To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

  • 2024-11-08

    If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.

  • 2024-11-08

    If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.

  • 2024-11-08

    The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Josu Vess, Lich Knight, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 5
Games played 1
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Gisa and Geralf 3 0 —
Ghoulcaller Gisa 2 1 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Dimir 3 decks
  • Mono-Black 2 decks

Every version of Josu Vess, Lich Knight

6 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Josu Vess, Lich Knight. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.