Bess, Soul Nourisher
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
Whenever one or more other creatures you control with base power and toughness 1/1 enter, put a +1/+1 counter on Bess.
Whenever Bess attacks, each other creature you control with base power and toughness 1/1 gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Bess.
Combos with Bess, Soul Nourisher
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Animation Module Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Animation Module Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Animation Module Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2022-04-29
Normally, a creature's base power and toughness are the power and toughness printed on the card or, for a token, the power and toughness set by the effect that created it. If another effect sets a creature's power and toughness to specific numbers or values, those become its base power and toughness. If an effect modifies a creature's power and/or toughness without setting them, that is not included when determining its base power and toughness.
- 2022-04-29
Some creatures have base power and toughness 0/0 and an ability that gives them a bonus based on some criteria. Those are not characteristic-defining abilities, and that ability doesn't change its base power and toughness.
- 2022-04-29
If a creature has a characteristic-defining ability that sets its power and toughness, indicated with a */* or similar in the power and toughness box, that ability is taken into account when determining its base power and toughness.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
As a commander
Decks built with Bess, Soul Nourisher in the command zone.
Published decks
Decklists players have published with Bess, Soul Nourisher in the command zone, newest first. A deck that has been played carries the win rate it earned in real tracked games.
- Rated deck 0 games —
Bess, Soul Nourisher price history
The New Capenna Commander #67 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $0.93 |
| Nov 10, 2026 | $0.93 |
| Nov 9, 2026 | $0.97 |
| Nov 8, 2026 | $0.95 |
| Nov 4, 2026 | $0.96 |
| Nov 3, 2026 | $1.30 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | $1.28 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | $1.68 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | $1.71 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | $1.72 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $1.78 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $1.80 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $2.13 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $2.09 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $2.05 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $2.02 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $2.08 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $2.07 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $2.09 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $1.72 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $1.73 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $1.35 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $1.24 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $1.17 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Bess, Soul Nourisher
3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Extended Art
- Normal
- $2.28
- Normal
- $0.93
Promo
New Capenna Commander Promos
- Foil
- $12.13
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Bess, Soul Nourisher. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
