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Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener

Legendary Creature — Fox Shaman

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.)
Whenever this creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on target creature. That creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less this turn.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{R}{G}{W}
Color identity
GRW
Rarity
mythic
Set
March of the Machine Commander
Price
$0.61
EDHREC rank
#9071
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Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener card art
Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener enters with a pile of +1/+1 counters equal to your highest-power creature and distributes them freely — that's a board-wide pump that scales with whatever threat you already control. The cost is a four-mana creature with no immediate protection, but the payoff is real, especially alongside Crystalline Crawler or in a Shalai and Hallar deck where every counter counts double.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Shalai and Hallar

Shalai and Hallar

44.8% of decks · synergy 0.43

Shalai and Hallar converts every +1/+1 counter placement into a damage trigger, so the burst of counters Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener distributes across your board can close out a game the turn it enters.

02

Miles Morales

33.1% of decks · synergy 0.31

Miles Morales rewards you for stacking counters on multiple creatures, and Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener does exactly that in one shot — a single cast can trigger a chain of Miles Morales payoffs.

03
Aragorn, Hornburg Hero

Aragorn, Hornburg Hero

29.5% of decks · synergy 0.27

Aragorn, Hornburg Hero cares about putting counters on humans specifically, and Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener's wide distribution hits every eligible creature you control at once, making it a reliable value piece in that human-tribal shell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener is a Commander card through and through — it needs a wide board and a high-power threat to make the counter distribution meaningful, conditions that 100-card multiplayer provides far more reliably than any 1v1 format. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but wildly outclassed; nobody is casting a four-mana do-nothing-immediately creature in those formats. Oathbreaker offers a narrower window where +1/+1 counter synergies run deep enough to justify it, but even there the power ceiling is lower than in Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.61 bulk tier

At $0.61, Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener is bulk by any measure, which makes it an easy include for counter-synergy decks with no budget friction. That price is unlikely to move much without a spike in a high-profile combo deck, so grab it now if you need it and don't expect to sell it later.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.