Soaring Lightbringer
Enchantment Creature — Bird Glimmer
Flying
Other enchantment creatures you control have flying.
Whenever you attack a player, create a 1/1 white Glimmer enchantment creature token that's tapped and attacking that player.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
- Price
- $0.54
- EDHREC rank
- #3942
Soaring Lightbringer enters with flying and lifelink and immediately grants both keywords to all other Demons and Angels you control — a two-mana lord effect stapled to a relevant creature type at four mana. In Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal decks especially, this is a must-include: the evasion and lifelink it spreads across a Demon-heavy board closes games fast.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal
Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal builds around a Demon-tribal core, and Soaring Lightbringer turns every attack step into a flying, lifelink assault — the 64% inclusion rate reflects how cleanly it fits the gameplan.
Yuna, Hope of Spira
Yuna, Hope of Spira summons a parade of legendary creatures including Angels, and Soaring Lightbringer's keyword distribution makes each of those creatures a more dangerous threat in combat.
Aminatou, Veil Piercer
Aminatou, Veil Piercer cares about enchantments and permanents with varied abilities, and Soaring Lightbringer's continuous anthem effect gives the board a consistent evasive threat profile that Aminatou's blink effects can re-trigger for repeated enters-the-battlefield value.
Zur, Eternal Schemer
Zur, Eternal Schemer animates enchantments into creatures, and adding flying and lifelink to those animated threats via Soaring Lightbringer makes the board both harder to block and a lifegain engine.
Daxos the Returned
Daxos the Returned generates Spirit Enchantment creature tokens, and Soaring Lightbringer — itself an enchantment creature — pumps those tokens with flying and lifelink while contributing to the enchantment count that powers Daxos's experience counters.
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 |
Soaring Lightbringer is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it sees meaningful play. In Legacy and Vintage, a four-mana 3/3 with a tribal lord effect is far too slow and narrow to compete. Commander is where the Demon and Angel typing lines up with dedicated tribal strategies, and Soaring Lightbringer's continuous keyword grant is impactful enough to earn a slot in the right builds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.54 bulk tier
At $0.54, Soaring Lightbringer is bulk — pick it up without hesitation if you're running Demon or Angel tribal in Commander. Bulk rares with narrow but genuine tribal utility tend to stay in this range indefinitely, so there's no urgency beyond your own deck's need.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.