Needle Storm
Sorcery
Needle Storm deals 4 damage to each creature with flying.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #28867
Needle Storm deals 4 damage to each creature with flying — a clean one-sided sweeper against air-heavy boards at just three mana. It's narrow by design, and that narrowness is exactly why it rarely makes the cut outside dedicated meta calls.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Needle Storm is a meta-call card — it either blanks an entire table's worth of flyers or does nothing, and that variance keeps it on the fringes of 99-card lists. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage have faster, more consistent answers to flying threats, so Needle Storm sees essentially no competitive play in those formats. Oathbreaker's smaller deck size and lower redundancy threshold make it marginally more appealing, but even there, a real flying hoser usually needs to be unconditional removal rather than a damage floor.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Needle Storm sits firmly in bulk territory, and there's no pressure driving it higher — it's a narrow effect on an old card with no competitive demand. Pick it up if the meta calls for it; don't expect the price to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.