Arcane Bombardment
Enchantment
Whenever you cast your first instant or sorcery spell each turn, exile an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard. Then copy each card exiled with this enchantment. You may cast any number of the copies without paying their mana costs.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #2200
Arcane Bombardment turns every instant or sorcery you cast into a cascading replay of your entire graveyard, and the snowball effect becomes unmanageable for opponents within one or two triggers. The six-mana entry cost is real, but decks running Prismari Command and similar spell-filtering have no trouble loading the graveyard before this lands — and Lorehold, the Historian in particular treats it as an immediate win condition.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lorehold, the Historian
Lorehold, the Historian's ability to exile and recast spells from the graveyard overlaps perfectly with the engine Arcane Bombardment builds, and at a 43% inclusion rate the pairing is the card's single most natural home. Every instant or sorcery you cast under Lorehold triggers Bombardment's accumulating replay, meaning the graveyard fills and fires simultaneously.
Zevlor, Elturel Exile
Zevlor, Elturel Exile copies targeting spells to hit each opponent, and Arcane Bombardment's replays feed Zevlor with a fresh stream of targeting spells every time you cast one. The result is a chain where a single cantrip or removal spell can bounce around the table before the replays even resolve.
Riku of Many Paths
Riku of Many Paths wants to copy spells, and Arcane Bombardment gives Riku more spells to copy by replaying the graveyard each time any instant or sorcery resolves. The combination means a single spell cast effectively multiplies two or three times over before the stack clears.
Firesong and Sunspeaker
Firesong and Sunspeaker cares about red and white instants and sorceries dealing damage and gaining life, and Arcane Bombardment turns each of those spells into a full graveyard replay that triggers the duo repeatedly. The life gain and burn outputs compound fast once the Bombardment exile pile has three or four spells in it.
Ashling, Flame Dancer
Ashling, Flame Dancer rewards casting the same instant or sorcery multiple times, and Arcane Bombardment's mechanic of exiling and recasting different spells counts as casting for Ashling's triggered abilities. The two cards together create a self-reinforcing loop where each spell cast advances both engines at once.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Arcane Bombardment is a Commander card — six mana for a do-nothing enchantment is simply too slow for Modern or Pioneer, where the game is usually decided by turn four and graveyards get hated out routinely. In Legacy and Vintage the mana is theoretically available but the payoff is redundant when those formats have faster, more reliable ways to replay spells. Commander is where Arcane Bombardment is genuinely threatening: the longer game gives it time to accumulate exiled spells, and a three- or four-spell pile in the exile zone turns any cantrip into a game-ending chain. Oathbreaker is the only other format where it has a real argument, specifically in a spellslinger shell built around a planeswalker that casts instants and sorceries repeatedly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Arcane BombardmentPrismari CommandReturn the Favor
Infinite damage; Infinite storm count; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite draw triggers for any number of players; Infinite looting for any number of players; Infinite self-discard triggers for any number of players
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Arcane BombardmentInspiring RefrainJhoira's TimebugTime Stretch
Infinite turns; Lock
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Arcane BombardmentTemporal ManipulationClockspinning
Infinite turns; Lock
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Arcane Bombardment isn't available in the current context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. Given its Commander-specific appeal and narrow competitive relevance, it tends to sit in the range you'd expect for a mythic enchantment with a devoted but not overwhelming audience — worth picking up if you're building the deck, but not a card that demands urgency.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.