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Scourge of Valkas

Creature — Dragon

Flying
Whenever this creature or another Dragon you control enters, it deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of Dragons you control.
{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{2}{R}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
Forgotten Realms Commander
Price
$3.75
EDHREC rank
#1466
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Scourge of Valkas card art
Scourge of Valkas turns every Dragon entering the battlefield into a direct-damage event, and in a deck that floods the board with Dragons, those triggers stack into lethal damage fast. The five-mana cost is real, but Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients loops and Atarka, World Render alpha strikes make it worth every mana.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Atarka, World Render

Atarka, World Render

77.7% of decks · synergy 0.75

Atarka, World Render swings with a full board of double-striking Dragons, and Scourge of Valkas front-loads each combat step with damage triggers before a single attack is declared — opponents die in layers.

02
Lathliss, Dragon Queen

Lathliss, Dragon Queen

74.8% of decks · synergy 0.72

Lathliss, Dragon Queen creates a Dragon token every time a nontoken Dragon enters, which means each cast also fires Scourge of Valkas twice — once for the creature, once for the token.

03
Rivaz of the Claw

Rivaz of the Claw

68.0% of decks · synergy 0.67

Rivaz of the Claw recurs Dragons from the graveyard repeatedly, and each recursion is another Scourge of Valkas trigger — the drain loop builds quickly over a long game.

04
Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients

Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients

67.1% of decks · synergy 0.64

Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients generates Dragon Spirit tokens whenever it takes damage, and Scourge of Valkas converts each token's entry into a new damage source — the two cards form a self-sustaining ping loop that can close the game without combat.

05
Ganax, Astral HunterAcolyte of Bahamut

Ganax, Astral Hunter // Acolyte of Bahamut

64.2% of decks · synergy 0.61

Ganax, Astral Hunter // Acolyte of Bahamut produces a Treasure on each Dragon cast, which keeps the Dragon chain moving, and Scourge of Valkas converts every cast trigger into board-wide damage that compounds across a long chain.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Scourge of Valkas actually lives — Dragon tribal decks are one of the format's most popular archetypes, and the card is a staple in that shell. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's technically legal but irrelevant; five mana for a creature that needs Dragon density to function doesn't fit any competitive list in those formats. Oathbreaker could support it in a Dragon-heavy build, but the smaller game size limits how often you assemble critical mass. Treat Scourge of Valkas as a Commander-exclusive card — that's the only context where its ceiling gets reached.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

2,737 decks
Vrondiss, Rage of AncientsScourge of Valkas

Vrondiss, Rage of AncientsScourge of Valkas

Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers

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Price Context

Current price

$3.75 cheap tier

At $3.75, Scourge of Valkas sits in the cheap tier and punches well above that price point given how central it is to Dragon tribal strategies. Demand is steady across thousands of Dragon commander decks, so the price is unlikely to crater — it's a safe pickup at this range.

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