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Soulless Jailer

Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem

Permanent cards in graveyards can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast noncreature spells from graveyards or exile.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Phyrexia: All Will Be One
Price
$1.95
EDHREC rank
#3112
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Soulless Jailer card art
Soulless Jailer shuts off graveyard recursion, enters-the-battlefield triggers from the graveyard, and flash — all on a two-mana artifact creature that opponents have to answer before their graveyard strategies come back online. The cost is real: locking out Knowledge Pool lines or any flicker package you're running yourself, and it stone-cold disables Winota, Joiner of Forces if you forget it's on your side of the table.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Winota, Joiner of Forces

Winota, Joiner of Forces

50.5% of decks · synergy 0.48

Winota, Joiner of Forces runs Soulless Jailer as a non-Human body that taxes opponents' graveyard engines while Winota's attack trigger does the heavy lifting — though you need to remove it before you want your own triggered abilities from flipped creatures to fire.

02
The Mindskinner

The Mindskinner

44.2% of decks · synergy 0.41

The Mindskinner's mill-and-punish gameplan benefits from Soulless Jailer shutting off the graveyard recursion that opponents would otherwise use to neutralize milled threats before they become liabilities.

04
Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

34.1% of decks · synergy 0.34

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard tutors Soulless Jailer at the right verse counter to surgically shut off graveyard strategies mid-game without spending a card from hand.

05
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade

Lavinia, Azorius Renegade

33.0% of decks · synergy 0.30

Lavinia, Azorius Renegade and Soulless Jailer form a layered stax package — Lavinia locks out uncounterable and free spells while Soulless Jailer closes the graveyard escape hatch, leaving opponents with very few lines.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Soulless Jailer is a stax piece that earns its slot by hitting multiple broken strategies at once — Yawgmoth loops, reanimator piles, and flash-based combo decks all run into it hard. Modern and Legacy see it occasionally in prison and hatebears shells as a hedge against Dredge and Lurrus-adjacent strategies, but dedicated graveyard hate like Rest in Peace or Leyline of the Void typically wins that slot. Pioneer's graveyard-light metagame gives Soulless Jailer limited targets, so it rarely shows up outside niche brews. It's not legal in Standard or Pauper, which is where its low price point would otherwise make it most accessible.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1,837 decks
Soulless JailerKnowledge Pool

Soulless JailerKnowledge Pool

Exile all spells players cast from their hand; Players can't cast noncreature spells exiled by Knowledge Pool; Lock

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1,300 decks
Soulless JailerOmen Machine

Soulless JailerOmen Machine

Players can't cast noncreature spells exiled by Omen Machine; Players can't draw cards; Lock

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163 decks
Soulless JailerEye of the Storm

Soulless JailerEye of the Storm

Exile all instants and sorceries players cast from their hand; Players can't cast spells exiled by Eye of the Storm; Lock

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Price Context

Current price

$1.95 cheap tier

At $1.95, Soulless Jailer sits in the comfortable range where you're not second-guessing the inclusion — it's a direct staple purchase with no buyer's remorse. Graveyard hate at this price point tends to stay cheap unless the meta shifts dramatically to reward it, so buy it for the effect, not the foil.

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