Soulcatchers' Aerie
Enchantment
Whenever a Bird is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put a feather counter on this enchantment.
Bird creatures get +1/+1 for each feather counter on this enchantment.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $4.97
- EDHREC rank
- #6603
Soulcatchers' Aerie turns every bird death into a permanent +1/+1 counter on every bird you control — in the right deck, that's a board-wide snowball that doesn't need a reset button. Two white mana to cast and nothing after that; the counters just accumulate as your birds trade and die.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kastral, the Windcrested
Kastral, the Windcrested is the defining home for Soulcatchers' Aerie — Kastral wants birds dying and returning, and the Aerie converts every bird that hits the graveyard into a board-wide stat bump that compounds over time.
Choco, Seeker of Paradise
Choco, Seeker of Paradise runs enough flying creatures that Soulcatchers' Aerie becomes a passive anthem that scales with normal gameplay, growing the whole board without requiring any additional investment.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Soulcatchers' Aerie actually lives — it's legal but irrelevant in Legacy and Vintage, where the game rarely reaches the board-state depth needed to make incremental counters matter. In Commander, bird tribal decks turn it into a genuine win condition: multiplayer tables mean more combat, more dying creatures, and more triggers stacking up over a long game. Oathbreaker is legal too, but the compressed game length works against a slow-building enchantment like this one.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.97 cheap tier
At $4.97, Soulcatchers' Aerie sits at the high end of the cheap tier — reasonable for a narrow tribal enchantment that sees real play in Kastral lists. It's a niche card with a stable price ceiling; don't expect it to move much in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Kastral, the Windcrested
- Choco, Seeker of Paradise
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.