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Soul Channeling

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Pay 2 life: Regenerate enchanted creature.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Mercadian Masques
Price
$0.25
EDHREC rank
#15121
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Soul Channeling card art
Soul Channeling turns any creature into a regeneration engine for just one black mana, giving your best threat a free pass the first time removal hits it. The cost is a continuous enchantment that opponents can blow up, but in a deck like Rowan, Scion of War that wants to pay life aggressively, the upside is real and the price tag is negligible.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Soul Channeling occupies a narrow but reliable slot in black decks that want to protect a single high-value creature — think reanimator payoffs or commanders that are too expensive to recast. It's legal in Legacy and Vintage but sees no play there; regeneration is too slow against the threats those formats deploy. Pauper is the other home worth noting, where budget creature-based decks value cheap, repeatable protection and removal runs narrower, making Soul Channeling's one-mana activation genuinely punishing to race.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.25 bulk tier

At $0.25, Soul Channeling is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. That price is stable by default; there's no spike catalyst in sight, so grab copies when you need them and don't think twice about it.

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