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Torrent of Souls

Sorcery4 generic manaBlack or Red mana

What you pay for, not what you choose, decides what this spell does, and that distinction is the entire design. Spend black and it raises a creature from your graveyard; spend red and a target player's creatures get +2/+0 and haste; pay both and it does the full package, returning a body and immediately swinging with a buffed, hasty board behind it. That combined line is the reason the card exists: the natural sequence (reanimate a fatty, pump the team, alpha strike) rewards a deck genuinely committed to both colors rather than one splashing a single pip. The easy paths get punished accordingly. A mono-black build pays five for a serviceable but overpriced reanimation; a mono-red build pays five for a slim Overrun-lite; only the player who paid for both gets the swingy turn the card was built around. It reads as two adjacent effects bolted together, but the bolt is the point. One printing serves three different decks at three different power levels, with the ceiling reserved for the player who spent the most colors to reach it.

Torrent of Souls (ema)
EMA · #217uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield if Black mana was spent to cast this spell. Creatures target player controls get +2/+0 and gain haste until end of turn if Red mana was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if Black manaRed mana was spent.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

4 sets
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