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Soul Foundry

Artifact

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a creature card from your hand.
{X}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card. X is the mana value of that card.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Mirrodin
Price
$0.59
EDHREC rank
#11881
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Soul Foundry card art
Soul Foundry turns any creature into a repeatable token factory — imprint something with a powerful enters-the-battlefield trigger or an oversized body, and you're generating free value every turn for a single mana. The cost is the setup: four mana to deploy, one creature exiled permanently, and the engine dies to any artifact removal before you recoup the investment. Pair it with Intruder Alarm or slot it into Ghired, Conclave Exile and the ceiling is absurd, but in a removal-heavy pod it's a liability.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Ghired, Conclave Exile

Ghired, Conclave Exile

23.6% of decks · synergy 0.23

Ghired, Conclave Exile cares deeply about populating — making copies of copies — and Soul Foundry feeds that loop directly by producing a fresh token of whatever creature was imprinted every single turn, giving Ghired a permanent source of populate targets without relying on combat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Soul Foundry actually lives — the singleton format rewards the setup cost because the payoff compounds over a long multiplayer game, and the combo density in EDH means Intruder Alarm lines are a real threat rather than a theoretical one. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes against faster, more resilient engines and rarely sees play; four mana for a conditional, removable effect doesn't clear the bar in those formats. Modern is the same story — the mana investment and fragility make it uncompetitive against the format's speed. Soul Foundry is a Commander card through and through, and it's evaluated as such.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.59 bulk tier

At $0.59, Soul Foundry sits firmly in bulk territory — cheap enough to throw into any brew without a second thought. The price reflects its narrow competitive relevance outside Commander, but for a card that enables infinite combos in EDH, that's a genuine bargain.

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