Soul's Grace
Instant
You gain life equal to target creature's power.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #16729
Soul's Grace pays you life equal to a creature's power the moment it enters — straightforward, instant-speed lifegain stapled to whatever threat you just deployed. At one white mana it's cheap, but life without a payoff is just a number, and Jumbo Cactuar aside, most Commander tables will punish you for spending a card on it.
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 |
In Commander, Soul's Grace is a fringe inclusion: it only pulls weight in dedicated lifegain shells where every point triggers an Archangel of Thune or a Sanguine Bond, and even there better options exist at the same cost. Pauper is where the card has the most structural relevance — common-legal lifegain synergies are leaner, and a one-mana instant that scales with creature power can close life-total races. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; Soul's Grace does nothing at the rate those formats demand. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's calculus: run it only if your signature spell or planeswalker creates a specific lifegain loop that needs the redundancy.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Soul's Grace is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard and a sleeve, not a scarce effect. That price is stable in the sense that it can't really fall further, but demand is thin enough that it's unlikely to climb without a Standard-legal printing and a broken combo attached.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.