Soul Stair Expedition
Enchantment
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment.
Remove three quest counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Zendikar
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #17468
Soul Stair Expedition returns up to three creatures from your graveyard to your hand — for free, once it accumulates three soul counters. The cost is time: you need three landfall triggers, which makes it a natural fit in dedicated landfall builds like Xavier Sal, Infested Captain, where the counters stack without any extra effort.
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 |
Soul Stair Expedition is a bulk rare in every format it touches, and it shows — the card sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy, Modern, Vintage, or Pauper, where the graveyard recursion suite is fast enough that a three-trigger setup reads as unplayable. Commander is where Soul Stair Expedition finds its only real audience, specifically in landfall decks that hit multiple land drops per turn and can fulfill the counter requirement in two or three turns rather than seven. In Oathbreaker the same logic applies, though the faster pace of that format makes the delay hurt more.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainIntruder AlarmStaff of TitaniaSoul Stair Expedition
Infinite ETB; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite Forest tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainIntruder AlarmJyoti, Moag AncientSoul Stair Expedition
Infinite ETB; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite Forest tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainIntruder AlarmAwaken the WoodsSoul Stair Expedition
Infinite ETB; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite Forest tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Soul Stair Expedition is deep bulk — buy a playset for less than a dollar. That price is stable for the foreseeable future; narrow utility in a single Commander archetype is not a recipe for appreciation.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Xavier Sal, Infested Captain
- Intruder Alarm
- Staff of Titania
- Jyoti, Moag Ancient
- Awaken the Woods
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.