Soul Seizer // Ghastly Haunting
Creature — Spirit // Enchantment — Aura
Flying
When this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may transform it. If you do, attach it to target creature that player controls.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dark Ascension
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #23152
Soul Seizer // Ghastly Haunting steals a creature on flip and keeps it enchanted for the rest of the game — but you're paying five mana across two turns to get there, and a 1/3 flying Spirit has to survive combat damage to trigger. The payoff is real; the setup is fragile enough that it belongs in decks built around protecting it, not jammed into any blue-black pile.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Soul Seizer // Ghastly Haunting finds its best home in Spirit-tribal or flicker builds where the flip trigger can be engineered rather than hoped for — commanders that protect their pieces or generate flicker effects turn the fragile setup into a reliable engine. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats on paper, but five mana and two-turn setup time are non-starters in those environments where faster and cleaner Control Magic variants exist. Modern has similarly efficient theft effects, so Soul Seizer // Ghastly Haunting doesn't compete there outside of Spirit-synergy lists. Commander is the format where its slowness is forgiven and its upside — a permanent, enchantment-based Control Magic attached to a relevant creature type — is worth building around.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Soul Seizer // Ghastly Haunting is pure bulk with essentially no financial floor to fall through. It holds no monetary value, but the acquisition cost is trivial — pick it up from a dollar box without a second thought if the deck calls for it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.