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Warren Soultrader

Creature — Zombie Goblin Wizard

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Modern Horizons 3
Price
$16.16
EDHREC rank
#436
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Warren Soultrader card art
Warren Soultrader turns any creature into a Treasure on demand — sacrifice an expendable body, get a mana rock, and generate value without touching your land drops. The cost is real: you're paying life and creature equity, so you need a deck that treats both as currency rather than resources to protect. In shells built around Gravecrawler loops or Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER's crisis counters, that cost is essentially zero.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER

67.1% of decks · synergy 0.54

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER runs on crisis counters that reward you for losing life and sacrificing creatures, and Warren Soultrader feeds both triggers simultaneously — every activation is a two-for-one with the commander in play.

02
Rakdos, the Muscle

Rakdos, the Muscle

57.3% of decks · synergy 0.49

Rakdos, the Muscle wants creatures in the graveyard and Treasures to fuel expensive threats, and Warren Soultrader converts fodder into mana while stocking the bin — exactly the kind of redundant sacrifice outlet the deck needs.

03
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

54.3% of decks · synergy 0.41

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder floods the board with Thrulls that become liabilities once the count gets too high, and Warren Soultrader converts the overflow into Treasures before they trigger the legend's self-destruction clause.

04
Edea, Possessed Sorceress

Edea, Possessed Sorceress

43.2% of decks · synergy 0.40

Edea, Possessed Sorceress wants creature deaths to stack power counters and generate incremental advantage, and Warren Soultrader provides a repeatable, instant-speed sacrifice outlet that keeps the engine spinning without relying on combat.

05
Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder

Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder

46.7% of decks · synergy 0.39

Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder cares about Treasures entering and being cracked for value, and Warren Soultrader is one of the cheapest ways in the format to convert a disposable body into exactly that trigger.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Warren Soultrader does its best work — 100-card singleton means redundant sacrifice outlets matter, and a two-mana creature that doubles as a mana engine slots into every black aristocrats shell that exists. In Legacy and Vintage, it competes against faster free-sacrifice outlets like Altar of Dementia and Phyrexian Tower, so it rarely makes the cut outside niche Gravecrawler loops. Modern is the one constructed format worth a second look: sacrifice strategies are real there, and Warren Soultrader's Treasure production adds a mana-acceleration angle that pure aristocrats builds sometimes want. Pioneer and Standard legality are off the table, and Pauper can't run it at uncommon or better rarity, so the practical footprint is Commander first, Modern fringe second.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Woe Strider fills a similar role at under $0.50 — it's a free sacrifice outlet rather than a mana-generating one, so you lose the Treasure upside but gain zero-cost activation and a scry stapled on. Carrion Feeder is even cheaper and works especially well in Gravecrawler loops, though again you're trading away the mana generation that makes Warren Soultrader worth the $16 price tag in the first place.

Price Context

Current price

$16.16 mid tier

At $16.16, Warren Soultrader sits in the mid tier — justified by its combo ubiquity across multiple top commanders and the fact that Treasure-generating sacrifice outlets at this efficiency level are genuinely scarce. It's a card the format legitimately needs in the right shells, not a hype purchase, so the price reflects real demand rather than speculation.

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