Eerie Soultender
Creature — Spirit Cleric
When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #16794
Eerie Soultender is a recursive threat that returns a creature from your graveyard to the battlefield when it dies, stapling reanimation directly onto a body. The cost is that it only triggers on its own death and requires the Eerie condition — rooms entering — to enable the loop, so it earns its slot in dedicated Eerie/room shells and nowhere else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Eerie Soultender earns a role in Eerie-themed builds where rooms entering is a repeatable event, turning each death into a free reanimation trigger. Outside that specific architecture it's too conditional to compete with unconditional recursion engines. In Pauper it's legal and the rate is fine for a common, but the format lacks the room infrastructure to trigger it consistently. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage have faster, cleaner recursion at every point on the curve, so Eerie Soultender doesn't register in those formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Eerie Soultender is pure bulk — you're paying for a playset out of pocket change. Bulk rares and uncommons with narrow synergy requirements rarely climb unless a new card creates a critical mass for the archetype, so treat this as a freely replaceable role-player rather than a spec target.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.