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Lingering Souls

First printed in Dark Ascension (2012)

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Lingering Souls

Sorcery

Create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying.
Flashback 1 genericBlack (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

The murdered inhabitants of Hollowhenge impart to the living the terror they felt in death.

Illustrated by
Bud Cook

Legality

Rulings (12)

  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
  • You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
  • You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
  • A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
  • If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
  • "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard if the resulting spell is an instant or sorcery spell by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."
  • A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
  • If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
  • You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
  • You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
  • "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard if the resulting spell is an instant or sorcery spell by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."

Prices

MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Lingering Souls in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Shadows over Innistrad Remastered (SIR), Premier Draft 63.0% +8.8 +10.2 3769
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen

Commander In 7 of 6150 decks (0.1%), most in Jace, Multiverse Architect

Share of decks
0.1%
= vs previous 30 days
2026-08-20: 0.2% 2026-08-27: 0.0% 2026-09-03: 0.1% 2026-09-10: 0.0% 2026-09-17: 0.1% 2026-09-24: 0.5% 2026-10-01: 0.1% 2026-10-08: 0.5% 2026-10-15: 0.0% 2026-10-22: 0.0%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
7
7 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
40%
3 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Jace, Multiverse Architect 0.3% 38%
Felothar, Dawn of the Abzan 0.0% 50%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Staff of the Storyteller100%615.0
Path to Exile100%16.6
Fellwar Stone100%3.0
Arcane Signet100%1.6
Sol Ring100%1.0
Plan for All Outcomes86%878.6
Mass Polymorph86%878.6
Restless Anchorage86%878.6
Archfiend of Despair86%878.6
Sunfall86%878.6

Best win rate

DeckRecord
Jace, Multiverse Architect
Grant Kropf in Paragon Gaming October 10th Pre Con Tournament
2-3
40%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
Jace, Multiverse Architect
Martin Sayago,
1 main #1
2-0
Jace, Multiverse Architect
Charles,
1 main #2
3-1
Jace, Multiverse Architect
Grant Kropf,
1 main #3
2-3
Jace, Multiverse Architect
Darien Vazquez,
1 main #10
1-2
Jace, Multiverse Architect
Marc Sauret Cabaleiro,
1 main #20
0-3
Jace, Multiverse Architect
Alba,
1 main #16
0-2
Felothar, Dawn of the Abzan
Davide Nemo,
1 main #20
0-2