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Imotekh the Stormlord

Legendary Artifact Creature — Necron

Phaeron — Whenever one or more artifact cards leave your graveyard, create two 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature tokens.
Grand Strategist — At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target artifact creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains menace until end of turn.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
mythic
Set
Warhammer 40,000 Commander
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4891
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Imotekh the Stormlord card art
Imotekh the Stormlord generates a free artifact token on each opponent's end step whenever a creature died that turn, turning board-wide combat into a steady artifact flood with zero mana investment. The payoff stacks fast in artifact-recursive shells — Scrap Trawler loops love the extra fodder, and Greasefang, Okiba Boss decks run it specifically because the token generation fuels both the graveyard and the Vehicle crew count simultaneously.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Greasefang, Okiba Boss

Greasefang, Okiba Boss

61.0% of decks · synergy 0.60

Greasefang, Okiba Boss crews Vehicles with any creature, and Imotekh the Stormlord's end-step tokens give you a free crewer every turn opponents trade in combat — keeping the Vehicle engine running without spending card resources.

02
Glissa, the Traitor

Glissa, the Traitor

53.1% of decks · synergy 0.53

Glissa, the Traitor returns an artifact from your graveyard to hand whenever an opponent's creature dies, and Imotekh the Stormlord ensures that every combat step not only triggers Glissa but also replenishes the artifact supply she's drawing from.

03
Golbez, Crystal Collector

Golbez, Crystal Collector

41.7% of decks · synergy 0.40

Golbez, Crystal Collector cares about artifacts entering and leaving play, and Imotekh the Stormlord's passive token generation creates a consistent stream of new artifact ETBs without requiring dedicated spell slots to sustain it.

04
Trazyn the Infinite

Trazyn the Infinite

24.9% of decks · synergy 0.24

Trazyn the Infinite exiles artifact cards to copy their abilities, and Imotekh the Stormlord's thematic and mechanical overlap with the Necron faction makes it a near-automatic inclusion — the tokens also serve as sacrifice fodder to protect Trazyn from commander tax.

05
Noctis, Prince of Lucis

Noctis, Prince of Lucis

16.5% of decks · synergy 0.16

Noctis, Prince of Lucis rewards stacking the battlefield with artifacts and creatures, and Imotekh the Stormlord converts every combat phase into incremental board presence that Noctis can immediately leverage for his cost-reduction and weapon-equip effects.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Imotekh the Stormlord does its best work — four opponents mean four end steps per round, and in a format where creatures die constantly, the token generation compounds quickly into a genuine board state. Legacy and Vintage are legal homes but impractical ones: the four-mana cost and creature-death dependency make it too slow and conditional for those formats' combo-dense, creature-light environments. Oathbreaker is the sleeper format for this card, since its faster pace and lower life totals mean artifact floods can close games before the engine outstays its welcome.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Imotekh the Stormlord isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate before buying. As a card with a narrow but devoted Commander audience — concentrated in artifact and Necron-flavored builds — prices tend to track closely with demand spikes around new Warhammer-adjacent releases.

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