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Solemnity

Enchantment

Players can't get counters.
Counters can't be put on artifacts, creatures, enchantments, or lands.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3812
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Solemnity card art
Solemnity shuts off counters entirely — no charge counters, no +1/+1 counters, no poison — and that single line of text enables some of the nastiest lock pieces in the format, most famously the Phyrexian Unlife two-card combo that makes you effectively unkillable. Noctis, Prince of Lucis builds around it as a core engine piece, but Solemnity earns a slot in any white deck that wants to break the symmetry of counter-based mechanics.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Noctis, Prince of Lucis

Noctis, Prince of Lucis

56.4% of decks · synergy 0.53

Noctis, Prince of Lucis relies on accumulating and spending counters in ways that Solemnity warps completely, making it one of the highest-synergy pairings in the format — over 56% of Noctis decks run it. The interaction between Solemnity and Noctis's counter-manipulation creates engine states that opponents can't easily disrupt through normal gameplay.

02
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

49.0% of decks · synergy 0.46

Shilgengar, Sire of Famine is an Angel tribal commander that benefits from preventing +1/+1 counters from landing on opposing creatures, and Solemnity shows up in nearly half of all Shilgengar builds. Locking out counter-based threats while Shilgengar's drain effects close the game is a clean game plan.

03

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn

35.2% of decks · synergy 0.32

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn has counter-placement mechanics that Solemnity interacts with directly, appearing in 35% of Eirdu lists. The pairing warps what Eirdu can do with those mechanics in ways that reward tight deckbuilding.

04
Zur the Enchanter

Zur the Enchanter

32.9% of decks · synergy 0.30

Zur the Enchanter tutors Solemnity directly into play off an attack trigger, which is reason enough — a three-mana enchantment that Zur finds for free is exactly the kind of silver bullet the archetype wants. From there, Zur decks use Solemnity to assemble the Phyrexian Unlife lock or simply to blank poison and counter-based win conditions from opponents.

05
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade

Lavinia, Azorius Renegade

13.0% of decks · synergy 0.12

Lavinia, Azorius Renegade builds around restricting what opponents can do, and Solemnity fits that philosophy by shutting off entire counter-based strategies. At 13% inclusion it's not automatic, but in counter-heavy metas it earns its slot as a soft lock piece alongside Lavinia's other taxing effects.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Solemnity does its real work — the format's density of counter-based strategies, proliferate synergies, and combo lines involving Phyrexian Unlife makes it a high-impact piece that can either assemble a lock or neutralize entire archetypes. In Modern and Legacy, Solemnity has seen play in dedicated hate-bear and prison builds, but it's narrow enough that it lives in sideboards rather than maindecks in those formats. Pioneer gives it a legal home but the combo infrastructure to break it is thinner, so it stays fringe. Vintage has too many ways to win through a Solemnity before it matters. Solemnity is a Commander card at heart — three mana is acceptable when your commander can tutor it or when the enchantment effectively ends certain games on the spot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data isn't available in the current feed, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for a live number. Solemnity has historically floated in the $2–5 range given its narrow application — it's not a bulk rare, but it's not chased outside of the decks that specifically want it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.