Josu Vess, Lich Knight
Legendary Creature — Zombie Knight
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional 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.
4 / 5
- Set
- Foundations Commander (FDC #107)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 4
- Released
- 2026-10-02
- Artist
- Tyler Jacobson
- EDHREC rank
- #7,239
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Army of the Damned
- Lord of the Accursed
- Cemetery Reaper
- Death Baron
- Undead Augur
- Murderous Rider
- Liliana's Standard Bearer
- Liliana's Mastery
- Midnight Reaper
- Endless Ranks of the Dead
- Undead Warchief
- Lord of the Undead
- Cryptbreaker
- Champion of the Perished
- Diregraf Colossus
- Heraldic Banner
- Caged Sun
- Zombie Apocalypse
- Vengeful Dead
- Grave Titan
- Noxious Ghoul
- Headless Rider
- Foulmire Knight
- Necrotic Hex
- Thran Dynamo
- Zombie Master
- Plague Belcher
- Shepherd of Rot
- Zul Ashur, Lich Lord
- Crowded Crypt
- Unholy Grotto
- Gempalm Polluter
- Smitten Swordmaster
- Gravespawn Sovereign
- Gilded Lotus
- Black Market
- Open the Graves
- Tomb Tyrant
- Gauntlet of Power
- Gravecrawler
- Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
- Unbreathing Horde
- Dark Salvation
- Vizier of the Scorpion
- Wand of Orcus
- Tainted Adversary
- Myriad Landscape
- Lost Monarch of Ifnir
- Fleshbag Marauder
- Rise of the Dread Marn
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Sol Ring
- Cabal Coffers
- Army of the Damned
- Arcane Signet
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Dark Ritual
- Lord of the Accursed
- Jet Medallion
- Death Baron
- Feed the Swarm
- Cemetery Reaper
- Cabal Stronghold
- Undead Augur
- Midnight Reaper
- Sign in Blood
- Murderous Rider
- Crypt Ghast
- Endless Ranks of the Dead
- Myriad Landscape
- Caged Sun
- Liliana's Mastery
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Liliana's Standard Bearer
- Undead Warchief
- Black Market
- Lord of the Undead
- Bojuka Bog
- Cryptbreaker
- Phyrexian Arena
- Heraldic Banner
- Champion of the Perished
- Mind Stone
- Diregraf Colossus
- Bontu's Monument
- Night's Whisper
- Grave Titan
- Gravecrawler
- Defile
- Fleshbag Marauder
- Charcoal Diamond
- Zombie Apocalypse
- Ashnod's Altar
- Bubbling Muck
- Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- Thran Dynamo
- Village Rites
- Headless Rider
- Vengeful Dead
- Liliana, Dreadhorde General
Format legality
Rulings
- 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
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
If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
- 2024-11-08
The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
- 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.