Blinding Souleater
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Cleric
, 
: Tap target creature. ( can be paid with either 
or 2 life.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- New Phyrexia
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #22125
Blinding Souleater taps any creature for two Phyrexian mana — repeatable, colorless, and available the turn it enters. The life cost adds up if you're leaning on it every turn, but the tap ability is uniquely powerful in decks that can offset or weaponize life loss.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Blinding Souleater is essentially a Commander card — the Phyrexian mana cost synergizes with commanders that care about life payment, artifact creatures, or infinite tap loops, and those engines live in EDH. In Pauper it's legal but too slow and too expensive to maintain against aggressive decks that don't care about a single tapped blocker. Legacy and Vintage have faster, cleaner answers to any threat Blinding Souleater could neutralize, so it never sees play there. Commander is the only format where the repeatable tap and the Phyrexian cost are both relevant enough to justify a deck slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Blinding Souleater is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a commons box, not tracking it on the market. That price isn't going anywhere; the card has a narrow niche and no crossover appeal in higher-demand formats.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.