Sire of the Storm
Creature — Spirit
Flying
Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may draw a card.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Crimson Vow Commander
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #15673
Sire of the Storm turns every spirit you cast into a free card, which in the right deck is a relentless draw engine stapled to a 3/3 flyer. Six mana is the real cost — you're not cheating anything in — but Millicent, Restless Revenant decks flood the board with spirits fast enough that the payoff arrives the turn it lands.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Millicent, Restless Revenant
Millicent, Restless Revenant generates spirit tokens on each attack, so Sire of the Storm converts that constant token production into card advantage — every swing that makes a token also replaces itself in hand.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Sire of the Storm actually lives; it's a build-around payoff that needs a critical mass of spirit synergy to justify six mana, and tribal Commander shells provide exactly that. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but completely irrelevant — the format's too fast and the effect too expensive for competitive constructed. Modern is the same story: a six-mana do-nothing-until-next-spell threat doesn't survive contact with the format's removal density. Oathbreaker could theoretically support it in a spirits shell, but the 20-life clock and tighter card counts make the mana investment harder to recoup.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Sire of the Storm is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. That price is stable by default; niche tribal payoffs at this cost don't spike unless a new commander pushes the archetype into the mainstream.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.