Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
Artifact Creature — Minotaur Wizard Sorcerer
: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #8328
Etherium-Horn Sorcerer puts a 3/6 body on board and cascades into any spell with mana value five or less — then bounces itself back to hand for six mana, letting you cascade again on demand. The self-bounce is the card; Averna, the Chaos Bloom turns every cascade trigger into free land drops, which means each Sorcerer loop also ramps your board.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Averna, the Chaos Bloom
Averna, the Chaos Bloom runs Etherium-Horn Sorcerer in over 80% of lists because the self-bounce loop is the deck's primary engine — each re-cast cascades again, and every cascade lets Averna drop a land from exile, effectively converting six mana into repeated ramp and card advantage.
Maelstrom Wanderer
Maelstrom Wanderer cascades twice on entry, and hitting Etherium-Horn Sorcerer off either trigger adds a third cascade to the chain while leaving a 3/6 blocker behind — the Sorcerer's bounce ability also lets you rebuild the cascade loop after a board wipe.
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 |
Etherium-Horn Sorcerer is a Commander card through and through — the self-bounce loop is irrelevant in formats where you're trying to close a game by turn four. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but purely unplayable; no competitive shell wants a six-mana 3/6 with a recursive loop that costs even more. Commander is where the card lives: cascade commanders like Averna, the Chaos Bloom and Maelstrom Wanderer turn the bounce into an infinite value engine, and the 99-card singleton format gives you enough redundancy to build around it meaningfully.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Etherium-Horn Sorcerer is bulk — you're paying nothing for a card that's a genuine engine piece in the right shell. Bulk rares that power specific commander archetypes tend to stay cheap indefinitely, so there's no urgency to stock up beyond the copies you need.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Averna, the Chaos Bloom
- Maelstrom Wanderer
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.