Koschei

UnitEvil

On Death or when discarded: I return to your hand and get +2⚔/+2♥ permanently.

3 ⚔3 ♥

Collectible card

Art by Marcos Rissette

M&L #169

Card art © Koin Games

Card · Myth & folklore

Koschei

Koschei is a unit in Origins TCG, the digital card game by Koin Games. It costs 6 mana, has 3 Power and 3 Health, and is Evil. It is a playable card (checked in the game on September 22, 2026). It appears in 6 of the 79 decks published on OriginsMeta.

UnitEpicEvil

Official game text

On Death or when discarded: I return to your hand and get +2⚔️/+2❤️ permanently.

On DeathDiscardReturnSelf Buff

Origin of the legend

Koschei the Deathless of Slavic folklore, who hides his soul in a needle inside an egg.

Decks with Koschei

Decks with votes first, by rating, then the newest. How often a card is played is popularity, not a win rate: Most played cards →

3 more decks with this card are in the list of all decks. All decks →

Often in the same deck

Cards found with Koschei in at least 2 of its 6 published decks.

Balance history

Deck changePatch 0.6.1 · August 14, 2026Official Steam post
The Discard deck is built around discarding him reliably; Genie was swapped for Mind Palace to help.

MetaShifting: every balance change →

In brief

Is Koschei playable in Origins TCG?: Yes: it is one of the 122 cards in the game's collection, checked on September 22, 2026, so you can put it in a deck in the deck builder.
Has a patch changed Koschei?: No: none of the patches since 0.6.1 (August 14, 2026) changed its stats or its text. It only appears in the changes to the playtest's preset decks (0.6.1).
Which cards are often in the same deck as Koschei?: The cards found most often in its 6 published decks: Asanbosam (in 6 of 6), Captain Ahab (in 6 of 6) and King Shahryar (in 6 of 6).

Build a deck with this card

One Legendary plus 12 different base cards, two copies of each: 25 cards. The deck builder is free and needs no account.

Deck builder

Same saga: Myth & folklore

Costs, stats, alignments and texts of the playable cards were checked in the game, in English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Russian; balance changes come from the official patch notes, and the 0.8 patch notes of 27 October 2026 (Early Access) list no card changes. Created and removed cards are not in the game's collection, so they have not been checked in the game. Card text © Koin Games. Sagas, origin notes and the Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Russian text of created and removed cards are by OriginsMeta.