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Soul's Attendant

Creature — Human Cleric

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Rise of the Eldrazi
Price
$6.09
EDHREC rank
#844
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Soul's Attendant card art
Soul's Attendant is a one-mana life-gain trigger stapled to a body, and in the right shell that means it's doing real work from turn one onward. Commanders like Karlov of the Ghost Council count every trigger individually, and Darien, King of Kjeldor turns damage into a feedback loop that Soul's Attendant helps sustain — at one mana, the cost of inclusion is essentially nothing.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Karlov of the Ghost Council

Karlov of the Ghost Council

82.5% of decks · synergy 0.71

Karlov of the Ghost Council needs two life-gain triggers per turn cycle to grow and threaten removal, and Soul's Attendant fires on every creature entering the battlefield — in a deck full of tokens or small creatures, it's not unusual to stack three or four counters on Karlov in a single turn.

02
Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant

Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant

74.9% of decks · synergy 0.68

Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant cares about life total milestones, and Soul's Attendant provides a passive stream of incremental gain that nudges you across those thresholds without requiring dedicated life-gain spells — it's background infrastructure that makes Bilbo's ability trigger more reliably.

03
Darien, King of Kjeldor

Darien, King of Kjeldor

82.1% of decks · synergy 0.68

Darien, King of Kjeldor converts damage taken into Soldier tokens, and Soul's Attendant turns each of those tokens entering the battlefield into a life-gain trigger — the result is a loop where taking damage actually stabilizes your life total while flooding your board.

04
Trelasarra, Moon Dancer

Trelasarra, Moon Dancer

71.7% of decks · synergy 0.66

Trelasarra, Moon Dancer puts a counter on itself and lets you scry every time you gain life, so Soul's Attendant transforms a creature-heavy board into a steady stream of scries and counters — the more creatures entering play, the more Trelasarra snowballs.

05
Amalia Benavides Aguirre

Amalia Benavides Aguirre

71.8% of decks · synergy 0.60

Amalia Benavides Aguirre triggers off life gain to explore and grow, and Soul's Attendant feeds that engine passively whenever a creature enters — in a go-wide build, that can mean multiple triggers per turn without spending any additional resources.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Soul's Attendant is a Commander card first and foremost — the format's multiplayer dynamics mean more creatures entering the battlefield across more turns, which is exactly when a passive trigger engine earns its slot. In Pauper, it's a legitimate piece of white lifegain aggro and soul sisters strategies, where redundancy with Soul Warden is a feature rather than a downside. Modern sees it in dedicated Soul Sisters lists, though the format's speed means it has to contribute quickly or become irrelevant. Legacy and Vintage are legal but effectively don't care — the card is too slow and too low-impact to compete at that axis. Standard and Pioneer aren't options.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1,173 decks
Treebeard, Gracious HostScurry OakSoul's Attendant

Treebeard, Gracious HostScurry OakSoul's Attendant

Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Soul's Attendant is itself the budget option in its own archetype — Soul Warden does the same thing at a comparable price, and running both is standard practice rather than a choice between them. If you need a third copy of the effect at a lower price point, Essence Warden is the white-free alternative and typically costs less than a dollar, though it can't block and mono-green shells are its natural home rather than Orzhov lifegain builds.

Price Context

Current price

$6.09 mid tier

At $6.09, Soul's Attendant sits at the high end of what you'd expect for a common with this effect — demand from Soul Sisters players across Commander, Pauper, and Modern keeps the price elevated relative to its rarity. It holds that value steadily because the effect is evergreen and the redundancy is intentional in the decks that want it, so there's no reason to expect a meaningful drop.

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