Cyclone Sire
Creature — Elemental
Flying
When this creature dies, you may put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control. If you do, that land becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste that's still a land.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Oath of the Gatewatch
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #26964
Cyclone Sire puts a 4/4 flying Elemental token on the board whenever you play a land from your graveyard — a meaningful body for something that triggers passively. The ask is a three-mana 1/1, which means Cyclone Sire only earns its slot in decks that regularly hit land-from-graveyard triggers, not incidentally.
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 |
Cyclone Sire is a Commander card, full stop — the graveyard-land synergy it demands is too slow and narrow to compete in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where three mana for a 1/1 with a conditional trigger is unplayable. In Commander, it slots naturally into Gitrog Monster builds, Borborygmos Enraged shells, or any landfall-graveyard hybrid that recurs lands through Crucible of Worlds or Ramunap Excavator effects, where Cyclone Sire can generate a token every turn cycle. Outside those specific archetypes, even in Commander, it's a bench card.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Cyclone Sire is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card itself. The price is stable because demand is narrow; it won't spike unless a new commander makes graveyard-land loops a top archetype.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.