Trespassing Souleater
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Construct
: This creature can't be blocked this turn. ( can be paid with either 
or 2 life.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- New Phyrexia
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #26165
Trespassing Souleater makes a creature unblockable for two Phyrexian mana — life or colored mana, your choice — which means the evasion is effectively free if you're willing to pay 2 life. It's a narrow enabler, but in decks that want guaranteed combat damage triggers, it does exactly one thing and does it cleanly.
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, Trespassing Souleater earns its slot in infect and poison strategies, where landing a single hit with a pumped creature closes games — paying 2 life to push through a blocker is trivially cheap against a 40-life total. Pauper is where it sees the most competitive play, slotting into infect shells alongside other cheap evasion tools where the common card pool makes this kind of reliable unblockable effect genuinely scarce. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster, more powerful infect packages, so Trespassing Souleater rarely makes the cut in those formats. Outside of dedicated poison or damage-trigger strategies, it has no role in any format — the card does nothing if you don't care about connecting in combat.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Trespassing Souleater is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box or pick up a playset for less than the cost of a sleeve. It's a role-player in narrow strategies rather than a broadly demanded card, so don't expect the price to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.