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Souldrinker

Creature — Spirit

Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic
Price
$0.26
EDHREC rank
#18170
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Souldrinker card art
Souldrinker grows itself by paying life — a real threat in decks built to spend life as a resource. The catch is that four mana for a vanilla 2/2 base is embarrassing unless Rowan, Scion of War is discounting your spells down toward zero, at which point every point of life you've shed becomes raw pump.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Rowan, Scion of War

Rowan, Scion of War

19.7% of decks · synergy 0.19

Rowan, Scion of War reduces spell costs based on life lost, so Souldrinker's self-taxing pump doubles as fuel for the engine — you're paying life to grow the threat and simultaneously making every subsequent spell cheaper.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Souldrinker is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it — those formats demand efficiency that a four-mana creature requiring repeated life payments can't provide. Commander is the only realistic home, and even there it's a role-player, not a staple. Outside of dedicated life-payment shells, the rate is too slow to matter before the game ends.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.26 bulk tier

At $0.26, Souldrinker is deep bulk — pick it up without a second thought if the deck calls for it. Don't expect the price to move; it's a narrow card with a narrow audience.

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