Soulcatcher

Creature — Bird Soldier

Flying
Whenever a creature with flying dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Conspiracy
Price
$0.28
EDHREC rank
#13473
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Soulcatcher card art
Soulcatcher turns every dying Bird into a permanent +1/+1 counter, snowballing a board of fliers into a lethal air force with zero ongoing mana investment. The cost — a two-mana 1/1 that does nothing the turn it enters — is real, but in a Bird-heavy shell it pays for itself the first time anything dies.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Kastral, the Windcrested

Kastral, the Windcrested

19.9% of decks · synergy 0.19

Kastral, the Windcrested rewards you for stacking +1/+1 counters on Birds, and Soulcatcher automates exactly that whenever your flock takes casualties — every trade in combat becomes fuel, turning Kastral's payoffs on faster with no extra mana required.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Soulcatcher is a Commander card through and through — its value compounds over a long game with repeated creature deaths, which is exactly the environment a 100-card singleton format provides. Outside Commander, it's legal in Legacy and Vintage but has never found a home; Birds aren't a competitive tribe in those formats, and a 1/1 for two that requires specific conditions to grow doesn't clear the bar. Oathbreaker is the one other format where a dedicated Bird build could make Soulcatcher functional, but the card pool and game length make it a distant second to Commander.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.28 bulk tier

At $0.28, Soulcatcher is bulk — you're picking it up for pennies out of a common box or topping off a order. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile Bird commander drives a sudden spike in the tribe's popularity.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.