Soul-Strike Technique
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has vigilance.
When enchanted creature dies, manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #24611
Soul-Strike Technique lets you copy a creature spell and leave a 1/1 body behind — instant-speed double-spelling for three mana is a real effect. The cost is that you need the original caster's creature to survive long enough to attack, which makes this reactive rather than proactive.
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 |
In Commander, Soul-Strike Technique earns a slot in spellslinger and creature-copy strategies — copying a haymaker at instant speed while generating a token is the kind of two-for-one that scales with the power of your opponents' threats. Pauper is where it quietly overperforms: at common, copying a creature spell in a format full of efficient bodies for three mana is legitimate value. Legacy and Vintage have too many faster, more flexible options for Soul-Strike Technique to compete on rate. Oathbreaker sits close to Commander in texture, and the same copy-plus-token payoff applies there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Soul-Strike Technique is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not a singles binder. Bulk instant and sorcery copies rarely climb unless they find a breakout combo home, so treat this as a throw-in, not a hold.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.