Soul Swallower
Creature — Wurm
Trample
Delirium — At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, put three +1/+1 counters on this creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #16139
Soul Swallower snowballs fast — a 4/4 that grows by +3/+3 each time you cast a spell with delirium active turns into a two-hit kill in short order. The ask is real: you need four card types in your graveyard before the trigger fires, which means the card is dead weight in the wrong shell and a threat that demands an answer in the right one.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Baru, Wurmspeaker
Baru, Wurmspeaker turns every Wurm into a value engine, and Soul Swallower's aggressive stat growth means it hits the size thresholds Baru cares about almost immediately — the combination of Baru's lord effect and a Wurm that doubles in size every spell cycle puts opponents on a very short clock.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Soul Swallower actually lives — delirium is easier to enable in a 100-card singleton format where self-mill, fetchlands, and incidental graveyard fill are commonplace, and a threat that scales exponentially off your normal gameplay is exactly what green midrange wants. In Modern and Legacy, a five-mana 4/4 with a conditional upside doesn't clear the bar; those formats have faster clocks and more reliable threats at lower costs. Pioneer is the same story — the card is legal but not competitive there. Soul Swallower is a Commander card through and through, and only then in decks built to hit delirium consistently.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Soul Swallower isn't available at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market listings. Given its narrow competitive application and Commander-specific home, it typically sits in budget territory, but verify before buying.
Explore
Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.