Soulknife Spy
Creature — Elf Rogue
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #17943
Soulknife Spy turns any hit from an unblocked creature into a free card, which is a real effect stapled to a two-mana 2/1 with deathtouch. The cost is that it does nothing until combat, and a 2/1 body gets outclassed fast — run it in decks that reliably connect, not as a standalone draw engine.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Soulknife Spy earns its slot in decks built around combat damage triggers — specifically Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow and ninjutsu shells where connecting every turn is the gameplan, not a bonus. In Pauper it competes in a creature-dense, value-hungry format where a two-mana 2/1 with deathtouch and a conditional draw trigger is genuinely playable in aggressive blue-black shells. Modern, Legacy, and Vintage have no interest in Soulknife Spy — the card is too slow and too conditional to compete with the raw power level those formats demand. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander calculus: strong in combat-centric builds, irrelevant elsewhere.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Soulknife Spy is pure bulk — no financial risk to picking up a playset. Bulk commons with narrow conditions rarely spike unless a new commander pushes a specific mechanic into the spotlight, so expect the price to stay in the floor range indefinitely.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.