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Scourge of Kher Ridges

Creature — Dragon

Flying
{1}{R}: This creature deals 2 damage to each creature without flying.
{5}{R}: This creature deals 6 damage to each other creature with flying.

CMC
8
Mana cost
{6}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Future Sight
Price
$1.68
EDHREC rank
#19619
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Scourge of Kher Ridges card art
Scourge of Kher Ridges hits the table as a repeatable board wipe stapled to an 8/8 flying body — pay two mana per creature to kill it, or pay four to kill everything without flying. The catch is eight mana to cast, which means it only earns its slot in decks that can cheat it out or generate absurd mana like Crystalline Crawler does.

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

Scourge of Kher Ridges is a Commander card — eight mana is simply too slow for Legacy, Vintage, or Modern, where the game is often decided before it could ever resolve fairly. In Commander, the cost is survivable because ramp is abundant, dragon synergies are everywhere, and a repeatable selective wipe at instant speed becomes a genuine control tool in the late game. Oathbreaker technically supports it, but the smaller starting life total and faster pace make the eight-mana ask even harder to justify there than in Commander.

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Price Context

Current price

$1.68 cheap tier

At $1.68, Scourge of Kher Ridges sits in the bulk-rare tier — genuinely underpriced for what it does in a dragon shell. That price reflects its narrow home rather than its power level, so it's a low-risk pickup for any deck that can reliably cast it.

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