Soul Manipulation
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Alara RebornARB · #29
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.22 € · ★ 0.60 € · 0.17 $ · ★ 1.11 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Blue Black
Card text
Choose one or both — • Counter target creature spell. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Carl Critchlow
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2009-04-30
Flavour text
"Birth and death are both reversible." —Nicol Bolas
Rulings
If you choose both modes, you choose their targets at the same time. You can’t counter your own creature spell and then return that card from your graveyard to your hand.
You may choose just the first mode (targeting a creature spell), just the second mode (targeting a creature card in your graveyard), or both modes (targeting a creature spell and a creature card in your graveyard). You can’t choose a mode unless there’s a legal target for it.
