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Creature — Human Cleric
LegalRank #509
Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.
1/1
Why is this card good?
Soul Warden is the original lifegain payoff that triggers off everyone's creatures entering, not just yours. That's the key: in a four-player game with constant token swarms and creature spam, you're passively draining the table for incidental life every turn.
She shines in two homes:
- Lifegain decks — alongside Heliod, Karlov, or Trelasarra, she's an engine piece that turns the board state into a life payoff. Pair with effects like Vito or Sanguine Bond to convert that gain into damage.
- Token/go-wide decks — your own ETB floods stack up fast, and she's a one-mana speed bump against aggressive boards.
Best when you have a way to use the life (drain, scaling commanders, Aetherflux Reservoir). On her own she's just a cushion.
Skip her if your deck doesn't care about life totals — raw lifegain without payoffs does nothing to win the game, and a vanilla 1/1 that gains you 1 life per creature is filler in midrange or spellslinger builds.
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Printings (15)
Rulings (1)
- 2025-01-24
If this creature enters at the same time as one or more other creatures, its ability will trigger for each of those other creatures.