Serpent's Soul-Jar
Artifact
Whenever an Elf you control dies, exile it.
, Pay 2 life: Until end of turn, you may cast a creature spell from among cards exiled with this artifact.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Kaldheim Commander
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #15272
Serpent's Soul-Jar turns every creature death in your black deck into a banked recursion threat — exile up to one creature card from each graveyard you control each end step, then cash those exiled cards back in as token copies for three mana each. The setup cost is real at four mana for the artifact itself, but in any deck that floods the board and trades creatures freely, it converts attrition into inevitability.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Serpent's Soul-Jar earns its slot — multiplayer games generate enough creature deaths across all graveyards that the exile clause rarely comes up empty, and the repeatable token production scales into late-game board states that outgrind opponents. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; those formats move too fast for a four-mana artifact that requires setup and multiple turns to generate value. Oathbreaker is the only other format where Soul-Jar has a plausible home, specifically in black value planeswalker shells that naturally churn through creatures.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Serpent's Soul-Jar sits firmly in bulk territory — it's the kind of card you pick up in a trade binder without thinking twice. Bulk rares with narrow-but-genuine Commander applications tend to stay flat or dip further, so grab it for your deck now rather than treating it as anything to hold.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.