Spinner of Souls
Creature — Spider Spirit
Reach
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Foundations
- Price
- $0.39
- EDHREC rank
- #4106
Spinner of Souls turns every creature death into a free card, making it a self-replacing engine in any deck that kills its own creatures or trades in combat. The five-mana cost is real, but once it's on board, the card advantage compounds fast enough that Deathrender loops and Shelob, Child of Ungoliant sacrifice payoffs become genuinely threatening draw engines.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant kills creatures and turns them into Food, so Spinner of Souls is drawing you a card on every hit — the two cards together convert combat into a constant stream of fresh threats.
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher cares about power and filling your hand, and Spinner of Souls keeps feeding both — creatures dying in combat or to Toph's own effects mean you never run dry.
Polukranos Reborn
Polukranos Reborn fights on command, which kills creatures on a schedule, and Spinner of Souls converts each of those deaths into a card draw without any additional setup.
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma pushes big creatures into combat constantly, and Spinner of Souls means every creature that trades in that combat replaces itself — the deck's natural attrition becomes card advantage.
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant runs a high density of large green creatures that rumble through combat, and Spinner of Souls rewards every creature that dies in those fights with a fresh draw.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Spinner of Souls earns its keep — games go long, creatures die constantly, and a five-mana enchantment that replaces every death is exactly the kind of slow-burn advantage that wins attrition wars over 40-life opponents. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, the five-mana cost is too slow to compete; sacrifice decks there want payoffs that close games, not ones that accrue value across several turns. Legacy and Vintage have enough fast mana that the cost becomes less damning, but those formats offer far more efficient draw engines and Spinner of Souls never sees serious play there. Standard is the one exception worth watching: if a creature-heavy or sacrifice-adjacent deck exists in the format, Spinner of Souls is cheap enough to slot in and powerful enough to dominate a fair game.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
DeathrenderSpinner of SoulsPhyrexian Altar
Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite colored mana; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers; Put all creature cards in your library onto the battlefield, then into your graveyard
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Current price
$0.39 bulk tier
At $0.39, Spinner of Souls is deep bulk — you're paying less than a pack of gum for a card that draws you cards off every creature death. Bulk enchantments with clear Commander applications tend to hold their floor once they find their audience, so this is a safe pickup if you're building any green creature deck that expects combat.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.