---
name: "Guide of Souls"
mana_cost: "{W}"
cmc: 1
type_line: "Creature — Human Cleric"
colors: []
color_identity: ["W"]
keywords: []
set: "SCH"
set_name: "Store Championships"
collector_number: "46"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Ryan Valle"
oracle_id: "b304ac72-7f40-40de-b8d6-6392909b6029"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/guide-of-souls-sch"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Guide of Souls
- **Mana Cost:** `{W}` (CMC: 1)
- **Type:** Creature — Human Cleric

## Oracle 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.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [A-Guide of Souls](/printing/a-guide-of-souls-mh3.md) — Creature — Human Cleric
2. [Inspiring Overseer](/printing/inspiring-overseer-fdn.md) — Creature — Angel Cleric
3. [Soul's Attendant](/printing/souls-attendant-roe.md) — Creature — Human Cleric
4. [Righteous Valkyrie](/printing/righteous-valkyrie-khm.md) — Creature — Angel Cleric
5. [Herald of Faith](/printing/herald-of-faith-fdn.md) — Creature — Angel
6. [Bishop of Wings](/printing/bishop-of-wings-m20.md) — Creature — Human Cleric

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Store Championships (SCH) #46
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Ryan Valle
- **Total Printings:** 4 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2024-06-07)* 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.
- *(2024-06-07)* 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.
- *(2024-06-07)* 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.
- *(2024-06-07)* 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.
- *(2024-06-07)* 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.
- *(2024-06-07)* 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}.