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 it was kicked, create eight 2/2 black Zombie Knight creature tokens with menace.
4 / 5
- Set
- March of the Machine Commander (MOC #253)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 4
- Released
- 2023-04-21
- Artist
- Tyler Jacobson
- EDHREC rank
- #7,358
- 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
- Liliana's Standard Bearer
- Endless Ranks of the Dead
- Murderous Rider
- Liliana's Mastery
- Midnight Reaper
- Lord of the Undead
- Undead Warchief
- Cryptbreaker
- Diregraf Colossus
- Heraldic Banner
- Champion of the Perished
- Zombie Apocalypse
- Caged Sun
- Noxious Ghoul
- Headless Rider
- Vengeful Dead
- Grave Titan
- Necrotic Hex
- Zombie Master
- Foulmire Knight
- Thran Dynamo
- Plague Belcher
- Crowded Crypt
- Shepherd of Rot
- Unholy Grotto
- Gempalm Polluter
- Zul Ashur, Lich Lord
- Smitten Swordmaster
- Black Market
- Gravecrawler
- Gravespawn Sovereign
- Gilded Lotus
- Tomb Tyrant
- Gauntlet of Power
- Wand of Orcus
- Dark Salvation
- Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
- Rise of the Dread Marn
- Open the Graves
- Tainted Adversary
- Lost Monarch of Ifnir
- Vizier of the Scorpion
- Liliana, Death's Majesty
- Myriad Landscape
- Fleshbag Marauder
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
- Jet Medallion
- Lord of the Accursed
- Death Baron
- Cemetery Reaper
- Feed the Swarm
- Cabal Stronghold
- Undead Augur
- Midnight Reaper
- Murderous Rider
- Crypt Ghast
- Sign in Blood
- Endless Ranks of the Dead
- Caged Sun
- Liliana's Standard Bearer
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Myriad Landscape
- Black Market
- Liliana's Mastery
- Lord of the Undead
- Bojuka Bog
- Undead Warchief
- Cryptbreaker
- Heraldic Banner
- Diregraf Colossus
- Mind Stone
- Champion of the Perished
- Phyrexian Arena
- Bontu's Monument
- Night's Whisper
- Gravecrawler
- Grave Titan
- Zombie Apocalypse
- Fleshbag Marauder
- Defile
- Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- Ashnod's Altar
- Thran Dynamo
- Village Rites
- Charcoal Diamond
- Bubbling Muck
- Headless Rider
- Noxious Ghoul
- Crowded Crypt
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.