Orbital Plunge
Sorcery
Orbital Plunge deals 6 damage to target creature. If excess damage was dealt this way, create a Lander token. (It's an artifact with "
, 
, Sacrifice this token: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.")
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Edge of Eternities
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #14544
Orbital Plunge deals damage equal to the number of creatures you control to each creature and planeswalker target opponents control — a board sweep that scales with your own army rather than clearing it. The floor is embarrassingly low in the early game, but in a token deck mid-to-late game, this is a one-sided Earthquake for three mana.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Orbital Plunge earns its slot in go-wide strategies — token commanders like Krenko, Mob Boss or Adeline, Resplendent Cathar can routinely point 15+ damage at a single blocker or problem planeswalker for three mana. Outside Commander, Orbital Plunge is playable in creature-dense aggro shells in Standard and Pioneer where the math lines up late in a game, but sorcery speed limits its ceiling — you can't use it as a combat trick or answer a flash threat. In Pauper, the card is legal and the price is right, but the format's lean creature counts make hitting meaningful thresholds inconsistent.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Orbital Plunge is deep bulk — pick up copies without a second thought if a go-wide Commander deck calls for it. Demand is narrow enough that this price tier is stable; don't expect movement unless a high-profile token commander pushes it into the spotlight.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.