Incandescent Soulstoke
Creature — Elemental Shaman
Other Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1.
, 
: You may put an Elemental creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #6423
Incandescent Soulstoke drops an Elemental from your hand onto the battlefield with haste, then returns it at end of turn — a repeatable cheat-into-play effect stapled to a lord that pumps your whole tribe. The cost is real: you're paying mana each activation and losing the creature at cleanup, so the engine only pulls its weight when the enters-the-battlefield trigger is worth more than the card staying in play, which is exactly what Ashling, the Limitless is built to abuse.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ashling, the Limitless
Ashling, the Limitless is an Elemental herself and wants to copy ETB triggers, which means every time you Soulstoke a fatty into play, Ashling can double the payoff before it bounces — Incandescent Soulstoke effectively becomes a repeatable ETB engine rather than a one-shot trick.
Omnath, Locus of the Roil
Omnath, Locus of the Roil cares about Elementals entering the battlefield and pinging opponents or drawing cards off each arrival, so Incandescent Soulstoke's end-of-turn bounce isn't a downside — it's a loop that fires Omnath's trigger again next time around.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Incandescent Soulstoke does its best work: the singleton format rewards the card's unique axis of cheating expensive Elementals into play repeatedly, and the longer game gives you enough activations to make the mana investment add up. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but has never found a home — the activation cost is too slow for formats that end on turn three, and there are cleaner ways to cheat permanents into play. Modern is the same story: Elemental synergy decks exist but lean on cards with immediate, unconditional impact rather than a tap-and-pay loop. For practical purposes, treat Incandescent Soulstoke as a Commander card.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Incandescent Soulstoke is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that sees meaningful play in two competitive Commander archetypes. It's not a card that will spike, but it's also not going anywhere, so picking up a copy now costs less than a sleeve.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.