Barrel Down Sokenzan
Instant — Arcane
Sweep — Return any number of Mountains you control to their owner's hand. Barrel Down Sokenzan deals damage to target creature equal to twice the number of Mountains returned this way.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #22731
Barrel Down Sokenzan deals damage equal to the number of Mountains you control to any target — in the right deck, that's a 10+ damage spell for three mana. Borborygmos Enraged decks that already run a Mountain-heavy manabase get to treat this as a secondary finisher, and it's rarely dead even in the early game.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Borborygmos Enraged
Borborygmos Enraged already pitches lands to Lightning Bolt opponents, so Barrel Down Sokenzan slots in as a complementary threat — once your Mountain count climbs past six or seven, this closes games that Borborygmos himself can't quite reach.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Barrel Down Sokenzan is a niche card with a specific home: decks that flood the board with Mountains through land-fetching or Landfall synergies, where it routinely hits for eight or more. Outside that archetype it's too conditional — paying three mana to deal three or four damage to one target is unplayable at the 100-card singleton table. In Pauper it's legal but competes with more efficient burn that doesn't require you to count basic land types. Legacy and Vintage don't want it at all; the formats move too fast for a sorcery with an on-board condition. This is a Commander-only card in practice, and even there it earns its slot in exactly one type of deck.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Barrel Down Sokenzan sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up in a trade binder or toss it in a cart filler order without a second thought. Don't expect the price to move; the card sees enough play in Borborygmos Enraged lists to keep it in print awareness, but not enough demand to push it out of bulk.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Borborygmos Enraged
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.