Soul Shepherd
Creature — Human Cleric
, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: You gain 1 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #29976
Soul Shepherd puts a 1/1 white Spirit creature token onto the battlefield whenever another nontoken creature you control dies — value that compounds fast in sacrifice or recursion shells. One white mana to cast is an irrelevant cost; the question is always whether your deck generates enough creature deaths to make the token flood matter.
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 Shepherd is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, and irrelevant in Modern, Pioneer, and Standard. In Commander it slots into Orzhov or Selesnya aristocrats builds where every death trigger stacks — think Teysa Karlov doubling those Spirit tokens or Lathril-adjacent go-wide strategies that sacrifice at will. Pauper is where Soul Shepherd sees its most competitive daylight, fueling white-based sacrifice and go-wide aggro shells that need a cheap, persistent token generator. Legacy and Vintage have the card pool to do this effect better, so it doesn't show up there.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Soul Shepherd is deep bulk — pick it out of a commons box or grab a playset for under half a dollar. Bulk commons with narrow application don't appreciate, so there's no reason to buy more than you'll actually sleeve up.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.