Worldsoul's Rage
Sorcery
Worldsoul's Rage deals X damage to any target. Put up to X land cards from your hand and/or graveyard onto the battlefield tapped.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.44
- EDHREC rank
- #2673
Worldsoul's Rage hits a target for X damage and puts X +1/+1 counters on a creature you control — scale X high enough and you've answered a threat while growing a board presence in the same motion. The cost is real: it demands both red and green mana pips plus a creature already in play to receive the counters, so it underperforms in creature-light hands. Rosheen, Roaring Prophet makes the ceiling irrelevant as a concern — she pays half the bill and turns Worldsoul's Rage into a mana-efficient swing.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet's activated ability generates four mana toward X spells, which means Worldsoul's Rage effectively costs two generic plus its color pips for whatever X you can afford — that efficiency is the entire reason the card shows up in 69% of Rosheen decks.
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
Hearthhull, the Worldseed cares about +1/+1 counters landing on creatures, so Worldsoul's Rage does double duty: it removes a problem permanent while simultaneously triggering whatever payoffs Hearthhull generates off counter placement.
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd rewards you for putting counters on creatures, and Worldsoul's Rage delivers a scalable counter dump on demand while clearing a blocker — the removal half is almost a free rider on the counter synergy.
Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
Tannuk, Memorial Ensign builds around growing creatures with counters, and Worldsoul's Rage fits as flexible interaction that keeps the counter engine ticking rather than spending a spell slot on pure removal.
Yuma, Proud Protector
Yuma, Proud Protector runs a wide creature base with counter payoffs, giving Worldsoul's Rage a reliable target to absorb the counters while it handles whatever creature needs answering on the other side of the table.
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 |
In Commander, Worldsoul's Rage earns its slot in any Gruul shell that wants removal with upside — the scalable damage handles large threats that fixed-damage spells can't reach, and the counter rider turns a reactive spell into board development. Outside Commander, the competition is brutal: Modern and Pioneer have access to cleaner, cheaper interaction, and the sorcery speed plus color commitment makes Worldsoul's Rage a fringe consideration at best in those formats. Standard is the one non-Commander home where it can carve out a role, particularly in midrange green-red decks that want to grow a threat and answer one simultaneously. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the efficiency bar is simply too high.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.44 bulk tier
At $0.44, Worldsoul's Rage is bulk, and there's no pressure to buy in quickly or in volume. It's a safe pickup at this price for any Gruul counter-synergy deck, and there's nothing about its demand profile that suggests it moves out of this tier soon.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.