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Soul Diviner

Creature — Zombie Wizard

{T}, Remove a counter from an artifact, creature, land, or planeswalker you control: Draw a card.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{U}{B}
Color identity
BU
Rarity
rare
Set
War of the Spark Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#8517
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Soul Diviner card art
Soul Diviner turns any counter on any permanent into a free card — tap it, remove a counter, draw — which is as clean a card-advantage engine as two mana gets. The catch is that it doesn't generate counters itself, so it lives or dies by the density of counter-bearing permanents around it; pair it with Necrotic Ooze or slot it into a Mirko, Obsessive Theorist shell and the tap ability fires every single turn.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist

Mirko, Obsessive Theorist

58.3% of decks · synergy 0.57

Mirko, Obsessive Theorist puts mill counters on creatures and fills the yard with fodder that accumulates additional counters, giving Soul Diviner a near-inexhaustible supply of removal targets and a draw trigger on virtually every turn cycle.

02
Noctis, Prince of Lucis

Noctis, Prince of Lucis

33.9% of decks · synergy 0.33

Noctis, Prince of Lucis generates weapon and accessory tokens that arrive loaded with counters, and Soul Diviner converts those counters directly into cards without requiring you to attack or sacrifice anything.

03
Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

18.8% of decks · synergy 0.18

Admiral Brass, Unsinkable returns Pirates to the battlefield with finality counters, and Soul Diviner strips those counters for card draw while simultaneously resetting creatures so Brass can recycle them again — a tight two-piece loop that rewards running both.

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 Soul Diviner earns its slot — the format's density of planeswalkers, Sagas, creatures with age and study counters, and proliferate synergies means it rarely sits without a target. In Modern and Pioneer it's a fringe piece, showing up only in dedicated -1/-1 counter or persist-combo shells where stripping counters is part of the game plan rather than incidental value. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster, more broken draw engines, so Soul Diviner doesn't compete there outside of very niche synergy builds. If you're playing it, you're playing it in Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Soul Diviner isn't currently available in this listing, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for a live number. Given its niche synergy profile — strong in specific counter-heavy builds, unplayable elsewhere — it tends to sit in the bulk-rare-to-low-value range, making it an easy pickup whenever you're already placing an order.

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