Soul Salvage
Sorcery
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #15501
Soul Salvage returns two creatures from your graveyard to your hand for three mana — solid volume recovery at a reasonable rate. It's not premium reanimation, but as a bulk sorcery it punches above its price tag in any deck that floods the yard.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Soul Salvage finds its best home in Commander, where graveyard synergies are endemic and refilling your hand after a board wipe is genuinely valuable. In Pauper it's a legitimate role-player — the common slot is competitive, and two-creature recursion at three mana is efficient enough to see play in creature-heavy strategies. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage all have faster, more powerful recursion options that make Soul Salvage obsolete in those contexts; it won't clear those 60-card cuts. Oathbreaker follows the Commander logic — if your signature spell or planeswalker plan leans on the graveyard, the card earns its slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Soul Salvage is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a functional piece of graveyard recursion. Bulk commons rarely move in price, so don't expect appreciation, but at this cost there's no reason to hesitate if the effect fits your deck.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.