Overwhelming Stampede
Sorcery
Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
- Price
- $1.67
- EDHREC rank
- #551
Overwhelming Stampede ends games on the spot — every creature you control gets +X/+X and trample where X equals your biggest creature's power, turning a board of modest elves or tokens into a lethal wave in a single swing. Five mana for a one-sided Overrun effect that scales with your board is the correct price for what it delivers.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Galadriel, Elven-Queen
Galadriel, Elven-Queen floods the board with Elf tokens through her scry-and-reward engine, and Overwhelming Stampede converts that wide token presence into a one-shot kill by pumping every creature to the size of your largest elf.
Zimone, Mystery Unraveler
Zimone, Mystery Unraveler generates large creature tokens and card advantage through extra draws, and Overwhelming Stampede leverages whatever high-power body Zimone's spells have produced to turn the whole board into a lethal trample swarm.
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer builds a board of face-down morphs and manifests that can flip into large creatures, and Overwhelming Stampede uses the highest power among those revealed threats to buff the entire attack and push through damage that would otherwise get chump-blocked.
Zilortha, Strength Incarnate
Zilortha, Strength Incarnate already makes every creature assign combat damage equal to its power rather than toughness, and Overwhelming Stampede stacks on top by both inflating that power and granting trample, making every blocker effectively irrelevant.
Yargle and Multani
Yargle and Multani sits in the command zone as an 18/6, which means Overwhelming Stampede immediately grants every other creature +18/+18 and trample — a single alpha strike that kills the table from a two-card setup.
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 |
Commander is where Overwhelming Stampede belongs and where it does its best work — multiplayer boards go wide naturally, and a five-mana sorcery that ends a three- or four-player game in one combat step is exactly the kind of efficient finisher green creature decks want. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but never played; those formats move too fast and interact too efficiently for a five-mana sorcery with no immediate board protection to survive to the attack step. Oathbreaker can support it in the same way Commander does, particularly with green planeswalkers that build creature boards, though the smaller 60-card format means games end faster and the window to cast it is narrower.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.67 cheap tier
At $1.67, Overwhelming Stampede sits firmly in the bulk-rare tier — cheap enough that there's no reason to cut it on budget grounds in any green creature deck. That price is stable; it's been reprinted enough times that downward pressure is already baked in, so you're buying a workhorse finisher, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Galadriel, Elven-Queen
- Zimone, Mystery Unraveler
- Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer
- Zilortha, Strength Incarnate
- Yargle and Multani
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.