Nahiri, Storm of Stone
Legendary Planeswalker — Nahiri
During your turn, creatures you control have first strike and equip abilities you activate cost less to activate.
−X: Nahiri deals X damage to target tapped creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #16892
Nahiri, Storm of Stone gives your equipped creatures first strike and lets you attach Equipment at flash speed for free — two abilities that compound fast in any Equipment-heavy shell. The cost is that both modes are conditional on it being your turn or an opponent's turn respectively, so the ceiling requires sequencing discipline.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Nahiri, Storm of Stone slots cleanly into Equipment-matters builds — Nahiri, the Lithomancer decks are the obvious home, but any Boros or Mardu Equipment commander benefits from the free equip trigger on opponents' turns, which turns combat tricks into genuine tempo plays. In Modern and Pioneer, the static first-strike grant is relevant in aggressive Equipment shells, though three mana for a planeswalker with no immediate board impact is a hard sell in those formats where the game is often decided by turn four. Legacy and Vintage have access to better options at this cost, so Nahiri, Storm of Stone sees essentially no play there. Oathbreaker is where the card gets genuinely interesting — as the oathbreaker herself, the free equip ability on opponents' turns is always live and she enables aggressive Equipment strategies at a lower power ceiling.
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data isn't available for Nahiri, Storm of Stone right now, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current number. Given that it's a niche planeswalker with a specific Equipment synergy requirement, it typically sits in budget territory — worth picking up if you're building the archetype.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.