Soul of Magma
Creature — Spirit
Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, this creature deals 1 damage to target creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #27387
Soul of Magma turns every spell that makes creatures into a ping machine — each token or creature entering the battlefield deals 1 damage to any target, which adds up fast in go-wide shells. Five mana for a 2/2 body is a steep ask, but the triggered ability is the reason you're here, not the stats.
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 |
Soul of Magma is a Commander card through and through — the formats where creature tokens multiply and the game goes long are exactly where the triggered ability generates real value. In competitive formats like Legacy, Modern, and Vintage, a five-mana 2/2 with a conditional triggered ability is nowhere near the power threshold, and you will never cast it there. Pauper runs enough token producers to make it technically playable, but the mana cost pushes it out of contention against commons that do more for less. In Commander and Oathbreaker, Soul of Magma slots cleanly into token-storm and creature-flood shells, where a single big turn can ping out a table's worth of utility creatures or drain down a low-life opponent.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Soul of Magma is deep bulk — the price of a sleeve, not a card. It won't appreciate; the appeal is purely functional, and any Commander player who wants one should buy a playset without thinking twice.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.