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Breaching Dragonstorm

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 8 or less. If you don't, put that card into your hand.
When a Dragon you control enters, return this enchantment to its owner's hand.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Tarkir: Dragonstorm
Price
$0.26
EDHREC rank
#4273
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Breaching Dragonstorm card art
Breaching Dragonstorm puts a Dragon directly into play from your hand or graveyard — no mana cost paid — then bounces itself to your hand if you control another Dragon, turning a single spell into a repeatable engine. The cost is real: you need a Dragon already in play to trigger the recursion loop, and without Mortuary or a similar graveyard engine, the ceiling drops fast. In Lathliss, Dragon Queen decks this card is a staple; everywhere else, it earns its slot only if you're leaning hard into the Dragon tribe.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Lathliss, Dragon Queen

Lathliss, Dragon Queen

35.3% of decks · synergy 0.34

Lathliss, Dragon Queen triggers on every nontoken Dragon entering the battlefield, so each Breaching Dragonstorm activation that cheats a Dragon into play immediately creates a 5/5 token — then the bounce-and-recast loop means you can chain those triggers in a single turn.

02
Ureni of the Unwritten

Ureni of the Unwritten

34.6% of decks · synergy 0.29

Ureni of the Unwritten wants a critical mass of large creatures to flip from the top of the library, and Breaching Dragonstorm lets you skip casting costs entirely, accelerating the board state Ureni needs to go wide and close games.

03
Ganax, Astral HunterAcolyte of Bahamut

Ganax, Astral Hunter // Acolyte of Bahamut

19.6% of decks · synergy 0.18

Ganax, Astral Hunter // Acolyte of Bahamut generates Treasure whenever a Dragon enters under your control, so Breaching Dragonstorm's free-drop effect converts directly into mana — each activation fuels the next threat without touching your mana base.

04
Rivaz of the Claw

Rivaz of the Claw

17.8% of decks · synergy 0.17

Rivaz of the Claw already cheats Dragon mana costs and recurs Dragons from the graveyard, making Breaching Dragonstorm a redundant free-cast effect that keeps the engine running even when Rivaz is answered.

05
Atarka, World Render

Atarka, World Render

16.0% of decks · synergy 0.15

Atarka, World Render wants to swing with the largest Dragons as fast as possible, and Breaching Dragonstorm fills the board ahead of the combat step without taxing your mana, letting you deploy Atarka and threats on the same turn.

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

Breaching Dragonstorm is a Commander card through and through — the bounce-and-replay loop only reaches its potential in a 100-card singleton format where Dragon synergy commanders exist to reward repeated free-drop activations. In Modern and Pioneer it competes against faster, lower-curve strategies and the tribal payoffs simply aren't dense enough to make a five-mana sorcery competitive. Legacy and Vintage have more broken things to do on turn five, and Breaching Dragonstorm offers no disruption, so it never sees play there. Standard is its most accessible non-Commander home, but the card still requires a dedicated Dragon shell to do anything meaningful, narrowing its field sharply even there.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.26 bulk tier

At $0.26, Breaching Dragonstorm is firmly bulk, and the price reflects a card that has a clear home but a narrow one — Dragon tribal Commander decks want it, almost nothing else does. It's stable bulk: don't expect significant movement up or down unless a future Dragon commander pushes the archetype into higher demand.

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