This card is annoying for black creature. The mana cost is little big (4BB), but the problem is that black has a lot of mana accelerators like Dark Ritual, etc. And if you splash green, it madness. I don't mind 5/5 flying for 4BB and can drain 5 life when it dies, but the legendary rule make this creature more epic... attack with it and cast the second kokusho to blow up 15 damages and you get 10 life. This creature must be handled with some removal spells (especially white), like STP, PTE, Oblivion Ring, etc.

  -- By Anonymous from Grixis on January 10, 2011

Have anyone mentioned this combo?: Kokusho + Goryo's Vengeance + Greater Good - sacrifice Kokusho to draw cards with Greater Good, then reanimate it with Goryo's Vengeance, attack someone and then sacrifice Kokusho to Greater Good once again. You deal 5 damage to one player, 10 (life loss) damage to all opponent and gain 10 life for each opponent... and if you wind up with 2 or more Kokushos in your grave, you could begin to use Goryo's Vengeance's Splice into Arcane ability to get even more out of your cards (Splice into Arcane = card advantage)

  -- By Jens N from Denmark on November 27, 2009

Awesome! Attach Deathrender, devour it with Predator Dragon (or it and some goblins with Voracious to deal even more damage), put Bladewing the Risen into play with Deathrender's ability which returns Kokusho from the grave and bam: deal 5 gain 5 and get a 6/6, 5/5 and 7/7 haste dragon into play all for 4 mana if you also have out a Dragonspeaker Shaman (or the cost of the devourer if not).

  -- By Flatline from Rochester, NY on July 11, 2009

wow! attack and rite of consumption...thats 15 damage at your opponent, and gain ten life. this is a fine card to dragonstorm with, even if bogardan hellkites do the damage when they come into play instead of leave...this is life gain!

  -- By greg from here on January 23, 2009

This and Yosei, the Morning Star are some of the best Dragons I have seen. The artwrok is beautiful too. Amazing what some of these artist can produce.

  -- By IG from HI on December 04, 2008

THIS TO ME IS PROB THE BEST CREATURE EVER...I REALLY THINK IT SHOULD BE RESTRICTED..

  -- By DANIEL from PORTLAND OREGAN on November 18, 2008

Kiki jiki doesn't target legends.......I had a deck that REGULARLY had Kokusho out turn 3...(boring two-paragraph long combo description involving mana ramping and big dragons). The loss of life from pain mana sources is quickly overcome and with Gleancrawler giving you back both Kokushos when you play the second you really can't go wrong. This deck even managed to drop sisters of stone death on turn 4 in type 2 tournament but anyways Kokusho is hands down my favorite Mtg card and probably always will and Ive been playing since '94

  -- By hard rock from Tempe, az on October 17, 2008

best type 1.5 dragon :)

  -- By gougou from Canada on July 14, 2008

turn one: mountain, rite of flame, rite of flame, rite of flame, rite of flame, dragonstorm for 4 kokushos.

  -- By Anonymous from places. on April 18, 2008

this card is beyond a great card i have it in my multicolored dragon deck i have 4 of them and i have 2 bladewing the risen and two defense of the heart. u could play this card fast if u knew how to play dragons as i could put one in on my third turn

  -- By Anonymous from calif on November 03, 2007

are you seroius? kiki-jiki this mother and bam

  -- By chris fry from san diego,CA USA on October 08, 2007

This card is so powerfull I am suprised that it has not been banned

  -- By ppoland from Luxembourg,Luxembourg on September 12, 2006

I like it

  -- By Duncan sexy from Benoni on August 12, 2006

turn one, swamp, turn two godless shrine, turn three fellwar stone + overgrown tomb, turn four greater good + forest, turn five KOKUSHO! + swamp, turn 6, sac kokusho+swamp+plus debtors' knell. game winner, bring back kokusho every turn, attack next turn, sac it.

  -- By spazz from des moines on July 24, 2006

KOKUSHO IS THE BEST CARD EVER MADE! (thats all i can say about it by the way, because it is above any comment)

  -- By Bane389 from India on February 16, 2006

freakin awesome combo with thoughtpicker witch and gleancrawler

  -- By your mom from denver on January 13, 2006

freakin awesome combo with thoughtpicker witch and gleancrawler

  -- By your mom from denver on January 13, 2006

This card kicks a$$! brilliant with dimir doppelganger and bury alive

  -- By Anonymous from South Africa on November 01, 2005

Lol. Whell what i do is just play this card sacrifice it or suwaside attacks (-5 life) then play my revive card( i have like 6 diffrent revive types of cards so i just repeat this process and eventually i kill them that plus my life leach spells. ; )

  -- By Shadow1213 from Columbus GA USA on August 23, 2005

I have a T2 reanimation deck for Magic Online. I have 4 of these bad boys in there and I have won the game as early as turn 4. And no it wasnt because my opponent conceded either. Kokusho is just that good.

  -- By Invincible from Hodge, La USA on July 05, 2005

on its own, its one of the most broken cards in the Champions set... however, it costs a converted 6 mana... don't get me wrong, the ability owns in a sac or reanimate deck, but with so many good counterspell/direct damage/tap/bounce cards, it can be a pain in the butt to use... especially when it gets Boomeranged or countered or something like that. SO... my point is this: this card alone deserves 5 stars (or more!) alone, as it is the most powerful dragon and the new legends rule... however, use it carefully.

  -- By Anonymous from Claremont, CA on May 04, 2005

In a red and black deck this would be like a highlight creature for that deck. 5 points of damage, that can be a game winner.

  -- By Tyler McCloud from Prattsville, Ar USA on April 27, 2005

in my opinion, this is the best of the five dragons out of kamigawa, it's the only one that can kill your opponent if they kill it, lotsa fun sacing it to death cloud, it'll be a staple in black decks as long as kamigawa block is in type 2.

  -- By mr. smith from the matrix on March 09, 2005

turn one: swamp, chrome mox(blue), chrome mox(blue), buried alive(3 kokusho) turn two: swamp, careful study(discard kokusho), turn three: swamp patriarc's bidding I win......suck it !

  -- By Anonymous from tulsa, ok on February 20, 2005

wow! this card is great!

  -- By never mind from orlando tx on February 18, 2005

....its better than AWESOME !

  -- By Who cares ? from Cleveland,OH on February 09, 2005

Dark dragon with the ablity to make oppements lose 5 LIFE !

  -- By boris chiu from hong kong on January 02, 2005

Awsome. A guaranteed game winner.

  -- By mazk from chicago USA on December 17, 2004

gimme an A! gimme a W! gimme a S! gimme an O! gimme a M! gimme an E! play one, attack next turn for 5, play another again, opponent(s) take 10 you gain 10 x X.

  -- By mariogotjumpton from USA! on November 30, 2004

Now I am awhite fan and I think this card rocks and could be devastating in a three way or four way duel.

  -- By Anonymous from Brandon,Florida on November 26, 2004