Soul Scourge
Creature — Nightmare Horror
Flying
When this creature enters, target player loses 3 life.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, that player gains 3 life.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Torment
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #29600
Soul Scourge enters and drains each opponent for 2 life, then refunds that life when it leaves — a clean 6-life swing in a four-player game just for casting a 4/2 flier. The body is underwhelming at five mana, so you're here entirely for the enter-and-exit triggers, which means it needs an aristocrats or blink engine to justify the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Soul Scourge is a bulk common, so it barely registers in Legacy or Vintage where five mana buys far more threatening threats. Pauper is its best non-Commander home — drain effects are genuinely impactful at common rarity and the format's slower clock makes a 4/2 flier with a life-drain rider more competitive. In Commander, Soul Scourge is a role-player in aristocrats or flicker shells where you can loop the drain trigger repeatedly; without that scaffolding, a 5-mana 4/2 that drains 2 per opponent is too slow to be a standalone threat.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Soul Scourge is deep bulk — pick it up in a common box or grab a playset for under a dollar without thinking twice. It's not a card that appreciates, but at this price you're paying for the effect, not the card.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.