Power Surge
Enchantment
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Collectors' Edition
- Price
- $4.28
- EDHREC rank
- #11391
Power Surge punishes every opponent who taps out on their turn by dealing damage equal to their untapped mana sources at upkeep — in a format where six-mana spells are routine, that number gets ugly fast. It's a mandatory inclusion in Yurlok of Scorch Thrash builds and a niche pain piece everywhere else.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Yurlok of Scorch Thrash
Yurlok of Scorch Thrash forces mana burn onto opponents, and Power Surge closes the loop: opponents who can't spend the mana Yurlok jams into their pools take hits from both effects simultaneously, turning the combination into a sustained damage engine that's difficult to ignore and harder to race.
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 |
Power Surge is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is clearly Commander — the multiplayer math means three opponents each absorbing upkeep damage compounds into a meaningful clock. In Legacy and Vintage it's too slow and too conditional against the combo-heavy threats those formats put on the table. Oathbreaker gives it a narrower audience, but the right planeswalker-based mana-denial shell can make it sting. Anywhere outside those four formats it's simply not legal, so the conversation starts and ends with 100-card singleton.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.28 cheap tier
At $4.28, Power Surge sits in the cheap tier — accessible without a second thought for anyone running Yurlok of Scorch Thrash. It's a low-reprint, narrow-appeal card, so the price reflects collector scarcity more than demand; don't expect it to move much in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.