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Soul Echo

Enchantment

This enchantment enters with X echo counters on it.
You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment if there are no echo counters on it. Otherwise, target opponent may choose that for each 1 damage that would be dealt to you until your next upkeep, you remove an echo counter from this enchantment instead.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{X}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Mirage
Price
$1.24
EDHREC rank
#24115
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Soul Echo card art
Soul Echo lets you replace all damage dealt to you with loss of counters, effectively buying you a full extra life total as long as the enchantment stays in play. The cost is real — your actual life total becomes irrelevant until the counters run out, which makes it a perfect pairing with Ad Nauseam but a liability if an opponent can remove the enchantment mid-combo.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Soul Echo is a Commander card in practice — the format's multiplayer damage pressure and life-payment combo engines are exactly the environment it was built for. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but sees no play; the formats move too fast for a five-mana enchantment that doesn't win the game on the spot. Commander is the only arena where Soul Echo earns its slot, slotting into black life-payment decks as a combo enabler or a one-shot insurance policy against burn-heavy opponents.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.24 cheap tier

At $1.24, Soul Echo sits firmly in the budget tier — cheap enough to throw into any black combo pile without deliberation. It's a narrow card with a loyal niche, so the price is stable rather than likely to spike unless a high-profile Bolas's Citadel or Ad Nauseam build pushes it into wider circulation.

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