Soratami Mirror-Guard
Creature — Moonfolk Wizard
Flying
, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #20774
Soratami Mirror-Guard makes a creature unblockable for the turn by bouncing a land — a repeatable evasion engine stapled to a 2/3 flying body. The cost is real: you're depleting your mana base every activation, which makes it a tempo sink in any deck that isn't already exploiting that bounce as a feature.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Soratami Mirror-Guard earns a slot in decks that want to connect with a specific creature repeatedly — Voltron builds, combat-damage trigger commanders, or Landfall loops where bouncing a land is upside rather than cost. Outside of those niches, a 4-mana 2/3 with a conditional, expensive activation rarely justifies the slot. In Pauper, the commons card pool is shallow enough that a repeatable unblockable effect on a flying body has fringe playability in mono-blue tempo, though it competes with cheaper evasion creatures. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in Soratami Mirror-Guard — the effect is too slow and too expensive at every axis that matters in those formats.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Soratami Mirror-Guard is deep bulk — buy a playset for less than a pack of sleeves. Don't expect that price to move; the card sees no competitive play and casual demand is thin.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.