Dakmor Sorceress
Creature — Human Wizard Sorcerer
Dakmor Sorceress's power is equal to the number of Swamps you control.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Starter 1999
- Price
- $6.02
- EDHREC rank
- #23437
Dakmor Sorceress lands as a 4/3 flyer that makes a 1/1 token on entry — reasonable stats, but the real draw is the discard-matters trigger that generates value in the right shell. Outside of dedicated discard or Swamp-counting strategies, it's a medium creature at a medium cost with nothing pushing it over the line.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Dakmor Sorceress earns its slot — discard-matters builds centered on black have enough payoffs and enablers to make the token and flying body genuinely useful rather than incidental. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but competes against far more efficient threats and discard engines, so it doesn't see meaningful play. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander at a smaller scale: fine in a dedicated discard shell, invisible everywhere else. The card is not legal in Modern, Pioneer, or Pauper, which is where budget-conscious players most often look, so its reach is largely Commander-exclusive in practice.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Dakmor Sorceress sits in a niche shared by other discard-synergy creatures, and Rotting Rats or Liliana's Specter handle the forced-discard angle at a lower curve without requiring a dedicated payoff theme. If the token-generation side is the draw, Penumbra Bobcat or similar incidental producers cover that role more efficiently — the trade-off is losing the flying body and the Swamp-count scaling that makes Dakmor Sorceress uniquely fit for mono-black-heavy lists.
Price Context
Current price
$6.02 mid tier
At $6.02, Dakmor Sorceress sits in the mid tier — not a throwaway inclusion, but not a major investment either. It's a niche card with a narrow home, so the price is unlikely to climb unless a high-profile discard commander pushes demand.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.