Guide of Souls
Guide of Souls: Creature - Human Cleric, Modern Horizons 3. Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life and get Energy . On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {W}
- Mana value
- 1
- Type
- Creature - Human Cleric
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Power / toughness
- 1/2
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
- Released
- 2024-06-14
- Collector number
- 29
- Artist
- Ryan Valle
- Commander rank
- 1,512 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Guide of Souls
Guide of Souls is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white creature from Modern Horizons 3 (MH3), a draft-focused set released in June 2024. It is collector number 29 in that set, with art by Ryan Valle. It costs {W} (one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. It is a 1/2 creature. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Timeless and Gladiator. It is banned in Historic. It has been printed in 3 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $3.96 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life and get {E} (an energy counter).
Whenever you attack, you may pay {E}{E}{E}. 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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $3.96 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Guide of Souls by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Banned |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of Guide of Souls
Guide of Souls has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Store Championships (SCH) #46 | Rare | 2026 |
| Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) #448 | Rare | 2024 |
| Modern Horizons 3 Promos (PMH3) #29s | Rare | 2024 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Guide of Souls, newest first.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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}.
- 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.)
- Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.
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