Selfless Spirit
Creature — Spirit Cleric
Flying
Sacrifice this creature: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander
- Price
- $0.71
- EDHREC rank
- #606
Selfless Spirit trades itself to make your entire board indestructible at instant speed — a two-mana 2/1 flier that doubles as a zero-warning board wipe counter. The cost is real: it's a one-shot effect, not a repeatable shield, so treat it like Sonic the Hedgehog hitting a spike — fast, effective, gone. Quintorius, History Chaser and similar commanders that care about creatures dying turn that downside into an upside.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Quintorius, History Chaser
Quintorius, History Chaser triggers off spells cast from exile and creatures entering, but the real hook is that Selfless Spirit's sacrifice synergizes with any payoff that wants creatures dying — and Quintorius decks are packed with them.
Burakos, Party Leader // Folk Hero
Selfless Spirit fills the Cleric slot in the party count for Burakos, Party Leader // Folk Hero, and its sacrifice ability protects the wide board of multiclass creatures that Folk Hero rewards you for assembling.
Millicent, Restless Revenant
Millicent, Restless Revenant generates Spirit tokens when other Spirits or Wizards die, so sacrificing Selfless Spirit to save the board also triggers Millicent's engine — protection and payoff in one activation.
Nalia de'Arnise
Nalia de'Arnise cares about creature types in hand and wants rogues, rangers, and clerics on board; Selfless Spirit plugs the Cleric slot and keeps the tribal pile alive through the board wipes that punish wide strategies.
King of the Oathbreakers
King of the Oathbreakers builds around Rogue tribal and going wide under the radar, and Selfless Spirit's sacrifice ability is exactly the kind of cheap, uncounterable protection that keeps a full Rogue board from folding to a single wrath.
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 |
Commander is where Selfless Spirit earns its keep — board wipes are ubiquitous, and a two-mana instant-speed indestructibility effect attached to a flying body is exactly the insurance creature-heavy decks want. In Modern and Pioneer it sees play in white creature shells, particularly alongside Collected Company targets and Collected Company itself, since it's a legal hit that provides both board presence and protection. Legacy has access to more redundant and powerful options, so Selfless Spirit is a fringe inclusion there, mostly in tribal or creature-combo lists that want the specific sacrifice trigger rather than the raw protection. Vintage is theoretically legal but the format's speed makes it largely irrelevant. Standard and Pauper are both off the table.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Sonic the HedgehogKrark-Clan ShamanSelfless Spirit
Infinite tapped Treasure tokens; Infinite damage to creatures
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.71 bulk tier
At $0.71, Selfless Spirit sits in bulk rare territory — cheap enough to slot into any white creature deck without a second thought. The price has stayed low despite consistent demand because multiple printings have kept supply healthy, and that's unlikely to change given how often it gets reprinted in precons and Masters sets.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Quintorius, History Chaser
- Burakos, Party Leader // Folk Hero
- Millicent, Restless Revenant
- Nalia de'Arnise
- King of the Oathbreakers
- Krark-Clan Shaman
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.