Elemental Eruption
Sorcery
Create a 4/4 red Dragon Elemental creature token with flying and prowess.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
- Price
- $4.56
- EDHREC rank
- #4966
Elemental Eruption puts a board of X/1 Elemental tokens into play the turn you cast it, where X equals the spell's mana value — a single card that goes wide and tall simultaneously. The cost is real: it's a sorcery-speed, seven-mana investment that does nothing if answered, but in the right shell, particularly under Eris, Roar of the Storm, that single cast can close a game outright.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Eris, Roar of the Storm
Eris, Roar of the Storm triggers off each instant and sorcery cast, and Elemental Eruption arriving at seven mana means the token army it creates immediately benefits from every subsequent spell you fire — making the eruption not just a board presence but a force multiplier for Eris's entire gameplan.
Stella Lee, Wild Card
Stella Lee, Wild Card copies spells when you've cast enough in a turn, and a copied Elemental Eruption at seven mana means two waves of X/1 tokens flooding the board off a single setup sequence.
Magnus the Red
Magnus the Red reduces the cost of your sorceries and instants, which lets Elemental Eruption land a turn or two ahead of schedule and still produce a token army large enough to threaten lethal.
Magar of the Magic Strings
Magar of the Magic Strings encodes instants and sorceries onto creatures and can recur them, giving Elemental Eruption a second life without paying the full seven mana again.
Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot
Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot rewards casting noncreature spells by granting prowess-style pumps, so the turn you resolve Elemental Eruption the resulting token swarm enters into an already-pumped board state ready to attack.
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 |
Elemental Eruption lives in Commander, where seven mana is attainable, the multiplayer board rewards a wide token army, and a single splashy sorcery can shift the table's entire threat calculus. It's legal in Legacy and Vintage, but neither format has the patience for a seven-mana do-nothing-if-countered sorcery when those formats are decided well before turn seven. Oathbreaker offers a middle ground — faster than Commander but still a format where high-mana spells occasionally get to resolve — though the compressed game length makes Elemental Eruption a fringe inclusion there at best.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$4.56 cheap tier
At $4.56, Elemental Eruption sits in the cheap tier and is a reasonable pickup for any spellslinger deck that can reliably reach seven mana. Given its niche but dedicated home in Eris, Roar of the Storm lists and adjacent spell-copy shells, the price reflects genuine demand rather than speculation.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.