Crackle with Power
Sorcery
Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Breaking News
- Price
- $7.87
- EDHREC rank
- #1257
Crackle with Power deals 5 damage per target to any number of targets for five mana times X — at X=3, that's 15 damage split however you need it for fifteen mana, which is exactly the kind of late-game mana sink that kills tables. Commanders like Rosheen, Roaring Prophet and Yavimaya Bloomsage // Channel make that mana real, and once it's real, Crackle with Power closes games that nothing else can.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet's ability to tap for four mana on any X spell means Crackle with Power reaches lethal X values several turns ahead of schedule, and at 65% inclusion across 2,046 decks, it's the payoff the deck is built around.
Rowan, Scion of War
Rowan, Scion of War reduces spell costs based on life lost, and a large Crackle with Power becomes trivially cheap after a few rounds of pain — it's in 62% of Rowan, Scion of War builds for exactly that reason.
Neheb, the Eternal
Neheb, the Eternal generates red mana in your postcombat main phase equal to damage dealt that turn, turning a modest attack into enough fuel to fire off a massive Crackle with Power before the turn ends.
Hinata, Dawn-Crowned
Hinata, Dawn-Crowned reduces the cost of spells that target multiple things, and Crackle with Power targeting three opponents costs three fewer mana under Hinata — a discount that can mean the difference between a lethal and a non-lethal X.
Magnus the Red
Magnus the Red gives your instants and sorceries a discount when you cast them, and Crackle with Power is the single biggest beneficiary: shaving even two mana off a high-X cast means you can aim one more target's worth of damage at the table.
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 |
Commander is where Crackle with Power is built to live — three opponents sitting at 40 life is exactly the problem a spell that scales to any number of targets was designed to solve. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but effectively absent; competitive non-rotating formats have no use for a ten-plus-mana sorcery when faster answers exist at every point on the curve. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where it has a real case, since planeswalker commanders regularly generate the mana or cost-reduction needed to make large X values realistic. Pauper and Standard are off the table entirely.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Banefire is the closest true budget replacement — uncounterable at X=5 or more, hits one target for far less mana, and costs under $0.50 — but it only ever kills one player per cast, which is the one thing Crackle with Power does that nothing else replicates cleanly. Comet Storm hits multiple targets with multikicker and runs about $1, making it the strongest functional substitute when you need to reach multiple opponents, though the per-target cost is higher and it lacks the uncounterable upside that Crackle with Power brings at high X.
Price Context
Current price
$7.87 mid tier
At $7.87, Crackle with Power sits in the mid tier — meaningful enough to feel in a budget, justified by the fact that no other card in the format does exactly what it does at the same scale. It's a stable staple rather than a spike target, and the price reflects consistent Commander demand rather than any artificial scarcity.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.