Soul of Eternity + Swords to Plowshares + Sanguine Bond

3-card combo · WB

Verdict

Yes — this 3-card line uses Soul of Eternity's enormous power as a one-shot kill through Sanguine Bond.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$4.46

Color identity

Popularity

503 decks

Format

Commander

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Soul of Eternity enters with power equal to your life total, so Swords to Plowshares exiling it triggers a lifegain spike that Sanguine Bond immediately converts into an equal loss for an opponent. The constraint is real: the opponent's life total must not exceed Soul of Eternity's power at the time of the trigger, meaning the pilot needs a meaningful life-total lead before pulling the trigger. This fits naturally in white-black lifegain commanders like Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Karlov of the Ghost Council, where the life advantage is already the game plan.

How it works

Prerequisites

Your life total is higher than or equal to an opponent's.

Steps

Cast Swords to Plowshares by paying , exiling Soul of Eternity and gaining life equal to its power.
Sanguine Bond triggers, causing target opponent whose lifetotal is less than or equal to Soul of Eternity's power to lose life equal to the life you gained.
The opponent loses the game due to having zero or less life.

Result

Near-infinite lifeloss for target opponent; Target opponent loses the game; Near-infinite lifegain

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Aetherflux Reservoir replaces Swords to Plowshares as the kill mechanism if a 50-life threshold is reachable, cutting the dependency on a specific removal spell. Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose is a two-mana Sanguine Bond on a creature body and slots in as a redundant copy; running both doubles the chance of having the drain effect live when Soul of Eternity hits the battlefield.

Soul of Eternity + Swords to Plowshares + Sanguine Bond

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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