Soulbound Guardians
Creature — Kor Spirit
Defender, flying
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #29666
Soulbound Guardians puts a pair of 4/4 flying Angels on the battlefield for six mana — solid bodies, real evasion, zero text beyond that. The cost is exactly what it looks like: six mana for a vanilla splashy creature is a rate that almost every other option at this slot beats.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Soulbound Guardians is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in none of them competitively. In Commander it might slot into a budget angel tribal list under Giada, Font of Hope or Lyra Dawnbringer when you've exhausted better options, but the slot pressure at six mana is brutal. Legacy and Vintage don't want a vanilla 4/4 split across two bodies at any price. Modern has enough rate cards at this cost to make Soulbound Guardians irrelevant outside sealed pools.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Soulbound Guardians is deep bulk — buy a playset for a quarter and don't think about it. There's no pressure on this price from above; it won't climb without a rules change or a combo discovery that hasn't materialized.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.