Shadowstorm
Sorcery
Shadowstorm deals 2 damage to each creature with shadow.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Tempest Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #30952
Shadowstorm is a narrow black instant that deals damage equal to the number of Swamps you control — high ceiling in mono-black, near-zero floor anywhere else. It's a bulk rare that sees fringe play at best.
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 |
Shadowstorm is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees virtually no competitive play in any of them. In Commander it has a home only in dedicated mono-black Swamp-matters builds — think Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth synergies where every land is a Swamp — but even there, a modal spell or unconditional removal almost always does more work. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it; the formats demand efficiency, and Shadowstorm's damage output requires a board state that those formats never reach.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Shadowstorm isn't currently available, but it's a bulk rare by any reasonable measure — expect to find it in the $0.25 or under bin. There's no reason to prioritize picking it up unless you're building a very specific Swamp-matters list.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.