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Alania, Divergent Storm

Legendary Creature — Otter Wizard

Whenever you cast a spell, if it's the first instant spell, the first sorcery spell, or the first Otter spell other than Alania you've cast this turn, you may have target opponent draw a card. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{U}{R}
Color identity
RU
Rarity
rare
Set
Bloomburrow Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4094
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Alania, Divergent Storm card art
Alania, Divergent Storm turns every instant and sorcery you cast into a free copy — the kind of snowball effect that ends games if it sits on the board for two or three turns. The cost is that it paints a massive target on your head the moment it resolves, and spells like Return the Favor that redirect that free copy back at you can punish you harder than any counterspell. Run it in decks that can protect it or close fast; Bria, Riptide Rogue shells do both.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Bria, Riptide Rogue

Bria, Riptide Rogue

62.5% of decks · synergy 0.58

Bria, Riptide Rogue copies spells through the combat damage trigger, and Alania, Divergent Storm stacks directly on top of that engine — every spell Bria already wanted to copy now generates an additional Alania copy, creating layers of free spells that compound each attack step.

02
Cormela, Glamour Thief

Cormela, Glamour Thief

20.1% of decks · synergy 0.19

Cormela, Glamour Thief cares about instants and sorceries going to the graveyard, and Alania, Divergent Storm feeds that pipeline by generating extra spell copies that still resolve and hit the yard — giving Cormela additional triggers without spending extra cards.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Alania, Divergent Storm is legal in every major constructed format, but Commander is where it actually matters. In Commander, the multiplayer table and longer game give you time to build up spell chains, and the political pressure of a free-copy trigger on every instant and sorcery is genuinely warping. In competitive constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, a four-mana 3/3 that requires you to cast spells to generate value is too slow and too killable to see serious play. Legacy and Vintage have access to enough fast mana and protection that Alania could theoretically do something degenerate, but those formats have better engines and no reason to reach for it.

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for Alania, Divergent Storm isn't available in this context — check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the live number. Given its status as a build-around commander with a dedicated and growing fanbase, it's worth picking up before any spike rather than after.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.