Malakir Soothsayer
Creature — Vampire Shaman Ally
Cohort — 
, Tap an untapped Ally you control: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Oath of the Gatewatch
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #24414
Malakir Soothsayer turns every creature death into a card draw trigger, which in a sacrifice-heavy Commander deck means you're refilling your hand while opponents are still processing their next turn. The cost — five mana for a 3/3 — is steep, but in the right shell the payoff is immediate and repeatable.
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 |
Malakir Soothsayer is a Commander card through and through — five mana and a 3/3 body have no competitive relevance in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where the game is decided before it hits the table. In Commander, it earns a slot specifically in sacrifice-matter decks that can guarantee multiple creature deaths per turn cycle; in slower or low-synergy builds it's just an expensive do-nothing until someone answers it. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's multiplayer pacing that the same rule applies: pair it with a planeswalker that kills creatures or generates fodder, or skip it entirely.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Malakir Soothsayer is deep bulk — pick up a copy whenever you need one without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow but genuine Commander applications tend to stay at this floor indefinitely, so there's no urgency and no risk either way.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.