Soratami Rainshaper
Creature — Moonfolk Wizard
Flying
, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target creature you control gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #16215
Soratami Rainshaper trades two lands from your hand to counter a spell targeting any permanent you control — repeatable protection on a 2/2 flying body for three mana. The activation cost is steep enough that it earns a slot only in decks that actively want lands in the graveyard or hand size as a resource.
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 Rainshaper is a niche inclusion: the land-return cost is punishing in a format where mana consistency matters, but landfall and graveyard-land synergies — Tatyova, Benthic Druid, Aesi, or The Gitrog Monster builds — offset the tempo loss by converting each activation into a resource. In Pauper, where commons define the format and creature-based countermagic is scarce, the Rainshaper's repeatable protection is legitimately disruptive and the flying body can matter. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for a three-mana do-nothing-until-activated creature to see meaningful play.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Soratami Rainshaper is deep bulk — you're not paying for the card, you're paying for the shipping. That price is stable; there's no demand driver to move it, and it will sit at this floor indefinitely.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.