Dragonstorm
Sorcery
Search your library for a Dragon permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)
- CMC
- 9
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Historic Anthology 5
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #10032
Dragonstorm ends games on the spot — cast it with storm count 3 or higher and you're dropping four Dragons into play simultaneously, which is simply over for most tables. The floor is a nine-mana sorcery that fetches one Dragon, which is unplayable; the ceiling is a lethal storm finish that requires exactly the right setup, so the card lives and dies by how well your deck builds to it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lathliss, Dragon Queen
Lathliss, Dragon Queen triggers on every nontoken Dragon entering the battlefield, so a Dragonstorm resolving for four Dragons immediately creates four additional 5/5 tokens — a board of eight Dragons out of one spell.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dragonstorm is a spike-or-whiff card: decks that build around rituals and cost reduction can storm off and find three or four Dragons to close the game, but it's a dead draw in any hand that can't hit storm count three or more. Legacy and Vintage have the ritual density to abuse it, though neither format has adopted it as a staple since faster combo options exist. Modern technically allows it, but nine mana at base cost puts it firmly in the 'cute but not competitive' tier outside of dedicated storm shells that would rather win with graveyard or critical-mass storm spells instead. Commander is genuinely the best home for Dragonstorm because the singleton singleton format's longer games give you time to engineer a storm turn, and the payoff — tutoring multiple Dragons directly into play — maps cleanly onto Dragon tribal strategies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data isn't available in the current context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest on Dragonstorm. Given its narrow use case and the availability of multiple printings, it has historically sat at a modest price point — worth picking up if you're building a Dragon storm shell, not a priority otherwise.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.