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Immolating Souleater

Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Dog

{R/P}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
The List
Price
$0.16
EDHREC rank
#14191
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Immolating Souleater card art
Immolating Souleater is a one-mana artifact creature that can go from zero to lethal in a single attack — pay enough life, it becomes arbitrarily large with infect. The cost is real: you're draining your own life total, which is a non-issue when Rowan, Scion of War is in the command zone converting that paid life into discounted spells, and a serious liability everywhere else.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Rowan, Scion of War

Rowan, Scion of War

33.2% of decks · synergy 0.32

Rowan, Scion of War turns every point of life Immolating Souleater costs into a mana discount, so swinging with a 20/1 infect creature is also setting up a free haymaker on the same turn — the two cards form a two-piece engine where paying life is the resource, not the drawback.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Immolating Souleater is a niche but genuine combo piece — it shows up almost exclusively in Rowan, Scion of War lists where the life-payment synergy is baked into the command zone. In Pauper, infect is a real archetype and a one-mana infect body has potential, but the activation cost in a 20-life format is steep enough that faster common options tend to win out. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power to make infect kills work, but Immolating Souleater competes with a much deeper card pool and rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated life-payment brews. It's a card with a narrow but real niche — if the commander or shell isn't actively rewarding you for losing life, look elsewhere.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.16 bulk tier

At $0.16, Immolating Souleater is deep bulk — grab a copy without thinking twice if you're building the right deck. Bulk artifact creatures with narrow combo applications don't appreciate, so there's no reason to stockpile, but the cost to include one is negligible.

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