Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain
Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain: Legendary Artifact Creature - Robot, Transformers. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}{U}{B}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Legendary Artifact Creature - Robot
- Colour identity
- White, blue and black (WUB)
- Power / toughness
- 5/4
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Set
- Transformers (BOT)
- Released
- 2022-11-18
- Collector number
- 14
- Artist
- Volta Creation
- Keywords
- Convert, More Than Meets the Eye
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain
Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare white, blue and black legendary artifact creature from Transformers (BOT), released in November 2022. It is collector number 14 in that set, with art by Volta Creation. It costs {1}{W}{U}{B} (one generic, one white, one blue and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 5/4 creature. Its colour identity is white, blue and black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Transformers is its only printing so far. It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.25 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
More Than Meets the Eye {2}{W}{U}{B} (You may cast this card converted for {2}{W}{U}{B}.)
Whenever one or more creature tokens you control deal combat damage to a player, exile target instant or sorcery card with mana value equal to the damage dealt from their graveyard. Copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. If you do, convert Soundwave.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.25 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Transformers (BOT) #28 | Mythic | 2022 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain, newest first.
- Soundwave, Sonic Spy's triggered ability can target only an instant or sorcery card with mana value exactly equal to the amount of damage dealt to the player by creature tokens you control.
- The cost is an alternative cost, so it can't be combined with any other alternative costs. It can be combined with any applicable additional costs.
- When you cast a spell using its More Than Meets the Eye ability, the card is put onto the stack with its back face up. The resulting spell has all characteristics of that face.
- Similarly, an ability of another card that instructs you to "transform" one of these cards will cause you to convert it, even if that ability doesn't use the word "convert."
- A spell cast this way enters the battlefield with its back face up.
- If you don't cast the copy, it ceases to exist the next time state-based actions are checked. The exiled card stays exiled whether you cast the copy or not.
- To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a More Than Meets the Eye cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of a spell cast using More Than Meets the Eye is determined by the mana cost on the front face of the card, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
- Zero is even.
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