Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit
Artifact // Creature — Spirit
This artifact enters with three omen counters on it.
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: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard.
Whenever a creature card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, remove an omen counter from this artifact. Then if it has no omen counters on it, transform it.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad Remastered
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #22955
Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit trades modest setup cost for a self-replacing enchantment that generates a flying spirit every time a non-token creature you control dies. Three mana gets you a persistent value engine that converts your graveyard traffic into board presence without any additional investment.
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 Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit actually belongs — sacrifice synergies, aristocrats, and go-wide token strategies all want a repeatable death trigger that also replaces itself as a 2/3 flier when removed. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it's too slow and too low-impact against answers that cost one or two mana, and it offers nothing Legacy or Vintage can't dramatically outpace with faster engines. Oathbreaker plays enough like Commander that the same logic applies at a smaller table.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up from a dollar box without a second thought. Bulk enchantments with narrow synergy profiles rarely climb unless they hit a breakout commander decklist, so don't expect movement.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.