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Rooftop Storm

Enchantment

You may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for Zombie creature spells you cast.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{5}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Innistrad Remastered
Price
$2.58
EDHREC rank
#2159
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Rooftop Storm card art
Rooftop Storm makes every Zombie you cast free, which in practice means Gravecrawler loops, infinite sacrifice triggers, and a board state that closes games the turn the enchantment resolves. Six mana is the real cost — it's a do-nothing until you untap, so it folds to instant-speed enchantment removal — but in any Zombie shell helmed by Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver, it's the highest-ceiling piece in the deck.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

91.3% of decks · synergy 0.81

Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver generates a Decayed token every time a non-Decayed Zombie dies, and Rooftop Storm turns that token loop into a free engine — you cast Zombies for nothing, sacrifice them to trigger Wilhelt, and rebuild the board repeatedly until something lethal sticks.

02
Varina, Lich Queen

Varina, Lich Queen

76.4% of decks · synergy 0.71

Varina, Lich Queen rewards you for attacking with Zombies by drawing cards and filling the graveyard, and Rooftop Storm converts that graveyard into a free casting pool, letting you recast everything Varina mills without spending a single mana.

03
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born

Grimgrin, Corpse-Born

81.1% of decks · synergy 0.70

Rooftop Storm and Grimgrin, Corpse-Born form one of the most direct win conditions in Zombie tribal — free Gravecrawler casts feed Grimgrin's sacrifice requirement, untapping him repeatedly and turning him into an unlimited removal engine and lethal threat in the same turn.

04
Temmet, Naktamun's Will

Temmet, Naktamun's Will

67.3% of decks · synergy 0.62

Temmet, Naktamun's Will cares about Zombies entering the battlefield and dying, and Rooftop Storm removes the mana ceiling that would otherwise cap how many triggers you generate per turn cycle.

05
Gisa and Geralf

Gisa and Geralf

72.9% of decks · synergy 0.62

Gisa and Geralf cast Zombies from the graveyard once per turn, but Rooftop Storm makes that cast free and lets the rest of your hand follow suit, collapsing the mana math that normally limits how much the deck can do in a single turn.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Rooftop Storm lives — Zombie tribal is one of the format's most popular tribes, and the enchantment's effect is uniquely broken at a 100-card, multiplayer table where the payoff for going infinite compounds across four opponents. Rooftop Storm is technically legal in Legacy, Modern, and Vintage, but six mana for an enchantment that requires a Zombie board to do anything is simply too slow for those formats, where the game is often decided by turn three or four. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where Rooftop Storm could see fringe play if the signature spell and planeswalker align with a Zombie package, but that's a narrow window. For practical purposes, treat this as a Commander-only card.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

8,180 decks
Acererak the ArchlichRooftop Storm

Acererak the ArchlichRooftop Storm

Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite +1/+1 counters; Near-infinite colored mana; Near-infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifegain triggers; Near-infinite lifeloss; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite storm count; Near-infinite Treasure tokens; Near-infinite ventures into the dungeon

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Price Context

Current price

$2.58 cheap tier

At $2.58, Rooftop Storm is one of the cheapest win conditions you can slot into a Zombie deck — it shows up in over 21,000 Wilhelt lists alone, and that demand hasn't pushed the price much because supply has kept pace through reprints. It's a confident pickup at this price; the card's role in the format isn't going anywhere.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.