Heat Stroke
Enchantment
At end of combat, destroy each creature that blocked or was blocked this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Price
- $4.21
- EDHREC rank
- #17357
Heat Stroke turns every untapped creature into a liability — anything that swings or blocks and survives has to tap itself to death afterward, which locks combat math firmly in your favor. At four mana for a global enchantment, the setup cost is real, but in a deck that goes wide with disposable tokens or wants to punish creature-heavy tables, Heat Stroke earns its slot immediately.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zurzoth, Chaos Rider
Zurzoth, Chaos Rider floods the board with Devil tokens that already want to attack, and Heat Stroke turns every surviving blocker your opponents threw in front of them into a casualty — their creatures tap to deal the damage, then tap again to die, while your token army keeps growing.
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 |
Heat Stroke is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander — a format where creature-heavy boards are the norm and a four-mana enchantment that warps combat persists long enough to generate real value. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is legal on paper but irrelevant in practice; those formats move too fast and lean too heavily on non-combat game plans for a slow enchantment to matter. Oathbreaker is the one other format where Heat Stroke could see play, specifically in aggressive red builds that want to punish token mirrors or go-wide creature decks.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.21 cheap tier
At $4.21, Heat Stroke sits at the high end of the cheap tier — not a throw-in, but not a budget concern either for any deck that genuinely wants it. It's a narrow enough card that demand stays low, so the price is unlikely to spike unless a breakout Commander deck pushes it into the spotlight.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.