Soulsworn Jury
Creature — Spirit
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target creature spell.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Salvat 2005
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #20594
Soulsworn Jury locks down a permanent the moment it enters — no targeting, no response window for the opponent to act first. The cost is that the lock only lasts as long as Soulsworn Jury stays on the battlefield, making it a removal magnet rather than a permanent answer.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Soulsworn Jury is a political tool as much as a removal spell — tapping down a threat until the table can deal with it buys goodwill and tempo simultaneously. Legacy and Vintage have faster, cleaner answers, so a three-mana do-nothing-permanent rarely makes the cut in those formats. Pauper is where Soulsworn Jury is most competitive, since permanent-based stax and tempo effects at common are genuinely valuable and the card's floor is higher relative to the format's power level.
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Price Context
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.