Subterranean Spirit
Creature — Elemental Spirit
Protection from red
: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature without flying.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $0.92
- EDHREC rank
- #27140
Subterranean Spirit hits the board as a 3/3 protection-from-red blocker that pings every non-red creature for 1 damage whenever you tap it for mana — repeatable, engine-attached damage stapled to a mana source. The catch is the cost: five mana for a 3/3 is a steep rate, and the payoff only compounds if you're built to untap it repeatedly.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Subterranean Spirit is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but realistically only Commander gives it room to breathe — the 60-card formats that allow it move too fast for a five-mana 3/3 with a slow-burn tap ability to matter. In Commander, it slots into Freed from the Real or Intruder Alarm shells where repeated untapping turns the ping into a board-control engine, and the protection from red keeps it alive through the format's most common sweepers. Outside of dedicated untap decks, Subterranean Spirit is too passive to earn a slot.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.92 bulk tier
At $0.92, Subterranean Spirit sits squarely in bulk territory — low enough to throw into any untap build without a second thought. It's a casual niche card with no competitive demand pulling the price up, so don't expect movement.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.