Portent of Calamity
Sorcery
Reveal the top X cards of your library. For each card type, you may exile a card of that type from among them. Put the rest into your graveyard. You may cast a spell from among the exiled cards without paying its mana cost if you exiled four or more cards this way. Then put the rest of the exiled cards into your hand.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Bloomburrow Promos
- Price
- $0.63
- EDHREC rank
- #9546
Portent of Calamity forces an opponent to sacrifice a permanent and discard a card for two mana — that's two-for-one disruption at instant speed before you factor in any copy effects. In Alania, Divergent Storm decks, where every instant and sorcery that gets copied doubles the pressure, it's a core piece rather than a flex slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Alania, Divergent Storm
Alania, Divergent Storm triggers on each instant and sorcery cast, and Portent of Calamity copied even once strips two permanents and two cards from your opponents — making it one of the most efficient disruption spells in the deck.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Portent of Calamity punches above its mana cost because three opponents means three possible targets, and any copy effect turns it into a board-state collapse. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern and Legacy it's too narrow — Thoughtseize handles discard more cleanly and Tragic Slip handles sacrifice more efficiently, so Portent of Calamity loses out to purpose-built alternatives. Pioneer and Standard are the formats where it finds the most casual experimentation, pairing with copy spells in Izzet tempo shells. It's legal in Oathbreaker, where the lower life totals make forcing a sac and a discard in a single spell genuinely punishing.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.63 bulk tier
At $0.63, Portent of Calamity sits in bulk territory, and that price is unlikely to move given its narrow home outside of Alania, Divergent Storm lists. Pick up as many copies as you need without hesitation — there's no financial risk here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.