---
name: "Soul-Scar Mage"
mana_cost: "{R}"
cmc: 1
type_line: "Creature — Human Wizard"
colors: []
color_identity: ["R"]
keywords: ["Prowess"]
set: "AKR"
set_name: "Amonkhet Remastered"
collector_number: "175"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Steve Argyle"
oracle_id: "009240f3-b7f8-4cbe-a3e9-974da66fb62c"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/soul-scar-mage-akr"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Soul-Scar Mage
- **Mana Cost:** `{R}` (CMC: 1)
- **Type:** Creature — Human Wizard
- **Keywords:** Prowess

## Oracle Text
Prowess
If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to a creature an opponent controls, put that many -1/-1 counters on that creature instead.

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2. [Heartfire Immolator](/printing/heartfire-immolator-fdn.md) — Creature — Human Wizard
3. [Sanguinary Mage](/printing/sanguinary-mage-soi.md) — Creature — Vampire Wizard
4. [Molten Lavamancer](/printing/molten-lavamancer-msc.md) — Creature — Elemental Warlock Villain
5. [Target Minotaur](/printing/target-minotaur-ust.md) — Creature — Minotaur Warrior
6. [Queen Brahne](/printing/queen-brahne-fin.md) — Legendary Creature — Human Noble

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Amonkhet Remastered (AKR) #175
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Steve Argyle
- **Total Printings:** 6 across all historical editions

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

## Official Rulings
- *(2017-04-18)* If multiple prevention and/or replacement effects are trying to apply to the same damage, the controller of the creature that would be dealt damage chooses the order in which to apply them. As examples, an opponent could choose to apply the effect of Djeru’s Resolve and prevent the damage rather than put -1/-1 counters on it; or an opponent could choose to convert the damage to -1/-1 counters before Insult could double it, and then Insult’s effect won’t apply anymore.
- *(2017-04-18)* Soul-Scar Mage’s effect isn’t a prevention effect. Damage that can’t be prevented will be replaced with -1/-1 counters.
- *(2017-04-18)* If an effect causes a creature you control to fight a creature an opponent controls, the damage is dealt simultaneously. For instance, if your 2/2 creature fights an opponent’s 4/4 creature, your creature will be dealt 4 damage and your opponent’s creature will have two -1/-1 counters put on it.
- *(2017-04-18)* If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes a source you control to deal noncombat damage to a creature an opponent controls, that damage will be replaced with -1/-1 counters.