Hot Soup
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature can't be blocked.
Whenever equipped creature is dealt damage, destroy it.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic 2015
- Price
- $0.46
- EDHREC rank
- #9803
Hot Soup makes any creature unblockable — the cost is that the equipped creature dies to any damage at all, no toughness required. That's a brutal drawback in combat, so you run it specifically in shells that never intend to attack into blockers or that generate enough value from the trigger to justify the glass-cannon trade-off; Gyome, Master Chef is the canonical home because the Food tokens patch the fragility while the unblockable clause closes games.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gyome, Master Chef
Gyome, Master Chef churns out Food tokens that can soak damage or gain life, effectively neutralizing the self-destruct clause on Hot Soup while the unblockable keyword turns any large threat into an uncontested finisher.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hot Soup is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's essentially a Commander-only card in practice. Constructed formats demand efficiency — one mana to equip for unblockability sounds appealing until you remember that any pinged creature simply dies, which is disqualifying in formats with Lightning Bolt and Unholy Heat. In Commander, politics and the slower pace let you pick your spots: equip a hexproof threat, a creature with a triggered attack ability, or something in a theft shell where the opponent's creature dying on your terms is fine. Outside of creature-light combo decks, Hot Soup is too narrow and fragile for 60-card formats to care about.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.46 bulk tier
At $0.46, Hot Soup sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a bulk bin without a second thought. Bulk Equipment with niche applications rarely climbs in price, so treat this as a cheap tool for the right deck rather than anything to acquire speculatively.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.