Noise Marine
Creature — Astartes Warrior
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Sonic Blaster — When this creature enters, it deals damage equal to the number of spells you've cast this turn to any target.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Warhammer 40,000 Commander
- Price
- $2.02
- EDHREC rank
- #7600
Noise Marine enters the battlefield and immediately deals damage equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard to any target — a free ping that scales as the game goes on. At three mana for a 2/2 with that trigger, it earns its slot in any spellslinger or cascade deck, and Averna, the Chaos Bloom lists run it at over 60% inclusion for good reason.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Averna, the Chaos Bloom
Averna, the Chaos Bloom cascades repeatedly, filling the graveyard with spells fast enough that Noise Marine's enter-the-battlefield trigger arrives loaded — 61% of Averna lists run it because the damage is often lethal or near-lethal by mid-game.
Abaddon the Despoiler
Abaddon the Despoiler rewards casting spells with cascade triggers, which stuff the graveyard at an accelerating rate; Noise Marine converts that graveyard depth directly into damage the moment it enters.
Radha, Heir to Keld
Radha, Heir to Keld fuels aggressive, mana-rich lines that empty hand and fill graveyard quickly, giving Noise Marine a stacked trigger even when landed early.
Laelia, the Blade Reforged
Laelia, the Blade Reforged exiles cards and grows through combat, but the spells cast off exile still count toward Noise Marine's graveyard trigger — a secondary payoff that scales naturally with Laelia's game plan.
Ruby, Daring Tracker
Ruby, Daring Tracker pushes an impulse-draw, attack-heavy strategy that burns through the deck fast; Noise Marine benefits from the resulting graveyard density and doubles as a removal tool for blockers or planeswalkers.
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 |
Commander is where Noise Marine belongs — longer games mean deeper graveyards, and the enter-the-battlefield trigger can dome a player or kill a planeswalker outright by the time you're casting it on turn four or five of a spellslinger game. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but never sees play; three mana for a 2/2 with a conditional damage trigger doesn't compete in formats where threats resolve by turn one. Oathbreaker is the closest second home: faster games still reward graveyard-filling strategies, and Noise Marine is a clean curve piece for instant- and sorcery-focused shells.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.02 cheap tier
At $2.02, Noise Marine sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough to throw into any Warhammer 40,000-adjacent or spellslinger build without deliberation. Demand is steady rather than spiking, so the price is unlikely to move dramatically in either direction.
Explore
Sources
Mentioned
- Averna, the Chaos Bloom
- Abaddon the Despoiler
- Radha, Heir to Keld
- Laelia, the Blade Reforged
- Ruby, Daring Tracker
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.