Immolating Gyre
Sorcery
Immolating Gyre deals X damage to each creature and planeswalker you don't control, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Jumpstart
- Price
- $4.68
- EDHREC rank
- #11558
Immolating Gyre deals X damage to each creature and planeswalker your opponents control, where X is the number of instant and sorcery spells you've cast this turn — in a deck that chains three or four spells before it resolves, that's a one-sided board wipe for six mana. Melek, Reforged Researcher turns every copied instant into another tick on that counter, which is why this card slots into that deck at nearly a 30% rate.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Melek, Reforged Researcher
Melek, Reforged Researcher copies instants and sorceries as they're cast, which means every spell that triggers Melek's copy ability also inflates the X on Immolating Gyre — land this after two or three copies resolve and you're clearing the board of anything with four or fewer toughness while leaving your own creatures untouched.
The Emperor of Palamecia
The Emperor of Palamecia generates a steady stream of instant and sorcery triggers through its Crystal mechanic, and Immolating Gyre converts that spell volume directly into a scalable board clear — cast it late in a turn where you've already resolved three or four spells and it reliably kills everything relevant on the other side of the table.
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 |
Immolating Gyre is a Commander card through and through — the payoff scales with a game that runs long enough to chain multiple spells in a turn, and a 100-card singleton environment filled with creatures and planeswalkers gives it a board to sweep. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes with cheaper, unconditional sweepers that don't require you to have cast spells first, making it a non-starter in those formats. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it has a real home, since the signature spell rule rewards instant- and sorcery-heavy builds where Immolating Gyre can realistically hit six or more damage by the time you cast it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.68 cheap tier
At $4.68, Immolating Gyre sits in the cheap tier — it's a real card at a price point that doesn't require justification. Demand stays steady because Izzet spellslinger commanders keep getting printed, so this isn't a card that's likely to crater.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Melek, Reforged Researcher
- The Emperor of Palamecia
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.