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Guide of Souls

Creature — Human Cleric MV 1

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What it does

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life and get E (an energy counter).

Whenever you attack, you may pay EEE. When you do, put two +1/+1 counters and a flying counter on target attacking creature. It becomes an Angel in addition to its other types.

Combos with Guide of Souls

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Yawgmoth, Thran Physician The Locust God Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Near-infinite lifegain triggers
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite death triggers
    • Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Near-infinite -1/-1 counters
    • Near-infinite energy counters
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • The Locust God Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite creature tokens with haste
    • Near-infinite energy counters
    • Near-infinite lifeloss
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Fabrication Module Basking Broodscale Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite energy counters
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite colorless mana
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Veinwitch Coven Carnival of Souls Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite energy counters
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Trudge Garden Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifegain
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Aethergeode Miner Panharmonicon Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifegain
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Warren Soultrader Gravecrawler Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite energy counters
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Basking Broodscale Archangel of Thune Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
    • Infinite energy counters
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

11 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-06-07

    If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you "may pay" some amount of E, and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won't resolve. You can't pay any E even if you want to.

  • 2024-06-07

    The type-changing effect of the reflexive triggered ability lasts indefinitely. It doesn't wear off during the cleanup step or when Guide of Souls leaves the battlefield.

  • 2024-06-07

    Some triggered abilities state that you "may pay" a certain amount of E. You can't pay that amount multiple times to multiply the effect. You simply choose whether or not to pay that amount of E as the ability resolves.

  • 2024-06-07

    If an effect says you get one or more E, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more E, you lose that many energy counters. You can't pay more energy counters than you have. Any effects that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with energy counters.

  • 2024-06-07

    Energy counters aren't mana. They don't go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana "of any type" can't give you energy counters.

  • 2024-06-07

    Some spells and abilities that give you E may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't get any E.

  • 2024-06-07

    Keep track of how many energy counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing theme down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine. (At higher levels of tournament play, dice may not be allowed for tracking counters that players have.)

  • 2024-06-07

    Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.

  • 2024-06-07

    Some triggered abilities that state that you "may pay" a certain amount of E describe an effect that happens "If you do." In that case, no player may take actions to try to stop the ability's effect after you make your choice. If the payment is followed by the phrase "When you do," then you'll choose any targets for that reflexive triggered ability and put it on the stack before players can take actions.

  • 2024-06-07

    E is the energy symbol. It represents one energy counter.

  • 2024-06-07

    You don't choose a target for Guide of Souls's last ability at the time it triggers. Rather, a second "reflexive" ability triggers when you pay EEE this way. You choose a target for that ability as it goes on the stack. Each player may respond to this triggered ability as normal.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Guide of Souls, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Karlov of the Ghost Council 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Orzhov 1 deck

Every version of Guide of Souls

4 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Guide of Souls — a name search across every version, for 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.