Soul Summons
Sorcery
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
- Ugin's Fate
- Price
- $0.39
- EDHREC rank
- #24406
Soul Summons manifests the top card of your library — if it's a non-land permanent, you get it on the battlefield face-down as a 2/2; if it isn't, you scry 1 and move on. The payoff is real when you're running a manifest-matters shell like Kitsa, Otterball Elite, where flipping face-down creatures triggers additional value, but outside that context it's too variance-dependent to earn a slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Soul Summons is a niche piece — it earns consideration almost exclusively in manifest or morph-focused decks where the face-down creature is a resource, not just a 2/2 speed bump. In Pauper it's technically legal but competes poorly against more reliable two-mana plays. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage have no interest in this effect at any price; the rate is too low and the randomness too punishing in competitive contexts. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: viable only if your signature spell or planeswalker is built around manipulating face-down permanents.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Kitsa, Otterball EliteAshnod's AltarIntruder AlarmSoul Summons
Infinite self-mill; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers; Near-infinite untap of all creatures
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Current price
$0.39 bulk tier
At $0.39, Soul Summons sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying for the effect, not the card. Bulk rares rarely recover value without a breakout ruling or reprint-driven demand spike, so pick it up for the deck that wants it and don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.