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Soul Transfer

Sorcery1 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Black rarely gets to exile, and it never gets to exile and rebuy in the same card without paying a tax somewhere. The tax here is a deckbuilding condition rather than a mana premium: the base spell picks one mode, but with both an artifact and enchantment on your side of the board as you cast it, both modes resolve off a single casting. That gates the two-for-one behind a board state most black decks are not naturally building toward, so the double mode functions as a reward for shaping the battlefield rather than a default line. Clean exile is the part that carries the card, since black's usual removal leaves a body in the graveyard or on the battlefield in some diminished form; exiling a creature or planeswalker outright sidesteps recursion, indestructibility, and death triggers alike, effects black has traditionally had to route around rather than answer head-on. Pairing that with graveyard recursion in the split mode makes the card a two-way pivot: interaction when you need to break something up, refueling when you need to rebuild. The permanent-type requirement is a callback to older "if you control X" gating, the design lever that lets a card carry a premium effect at a fair rate as long as the battlefield cooperates. What you get is not a strictly efficient removal spell but a conditional one whose ceiling is high enough to justify building toward the permanents that unlock it.

Soul Transfer (pneo)
PNEO · #122prare
Pricing
Normal: $0.45
Foil: $1.42
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose one. If you control an artifact and an enchantment as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Exile target creature or planeswalker. • Return target creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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