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Fall of Cair Andros

Enchantment

Whenever a creature an opponent controls is dealt excess noncombat damage, amass Orcs X, where X is that excess damage. (Put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)
{7}{R}: This enchantment deals 7 damage to target creature.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Tales of Middle-earth Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#7189
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Fall of Cair Andros card art
Fall of Cair Andros floods the board with an Army token army that scales off the biggest creature's power — comparable board impact to Blasphemous Act in the right shell, but instead of clearing the table it hands you a winning combat. The five-mana cost is real, but Saruman, the White Hand turns every subsequent noncreature spell into a free amass trigger that compounds the token stack fast enough to justify it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Saruman, the White Hand

Saruman, the White Hand

31.2% of decks · synergy 0.29

Saruman, the White Hand's triggered ability amasses Orcs whenever you cast a noncreature spell, and Fall of Cair Andros itself counts — so you're stacking triggers from both sides of the equation and rapidly growing a single massive token that threatens a one-shot.

02
Sauron, the Dark Lord

Sauron, the Dark Lord

20.8% of decks · synergy 0.18

Sauron, the Dark Lord rewards a high density of Ring-tempting and Orc-generating effects, and Fall of Cair Andros delivers a large amass payoff that slots cleanly into that gameplan while also providing immediate board presence to protect Sauron.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Fall of Cair Andros does its best work — multiplayer boards are wide enough that copying the biggest threat's power onto an Army token is routinely a lethal swing, and the card slots naturally into any black shell running big creatures or amass payoffs. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but effectively unplayed; five mana for a token that doesn't interact with the stack puts it well outside those format's threat threshold. Modern is its only non-rotating constructed home, and while amass strategies have fringe playability there, Fall of Cair Andros is too slow and too situational to see serious competition.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data isn't currently available for Fall of Cair Andros, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate before buying. Given its strong EDHREC adoption numbers in Saruman and Sauron builds, demand is real — don't assume it's a bulk rare without verifying.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.