"Kayang Kaya ni Kaya"

"Kayang Kaya ni Kaya"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

Kayang Kaya ni Kaya or in English Kaya can really do it. I happen to just enjoy the play on words one day as I contemplated on the planeswalker who was instrumental in killing a Ghost King in another plane. 

Now this 3 mana costing planeswalker has a unique game play that circles around it. Her first two abilities concern exiling things from the graveyard and from the battlefield. 

Her +1 exiles 2 cards from the graveyard , hosing down reanimation shenanigans and you also gain life if at least 1 creature is removed this way.

Her -1 exiles a target nonland permanent with mana cost 1 or less. Might be that Sol ring  , might be that altar of the brood or a lone 1 mana creature just minding it's own business. Kaya can exile it.

And she loves exiling things. And in all of magic White seems to love doing this from Path to Exile , Final Judgement and even the various 3 mana "Police" cards that exile permanents like Oblivion Ring or Ring Warden.

So what does Kaya , Orzhov Usurper do about this exiled cards? Well she makes an opponent pay and gains an advantage. Her ultimate ability (-5) let's you count all of those exiled cards of a target player , that player loses life equal to the number of exiled cards and you gain that much life as well. A large swing in your favor.

So Kaya will be happy to just let all the armies build up around her , cast a Final Judgement, exiling a ton of creatures and then use her ultimate ability. Yikes. Some Eldrazi cards would really love her. Hmmmmmmmm

An Eldrazi- Kaya deck seems to be in order. Hmmmmmm