Slagstorm
Sorcery
Choose one —
• Slagstorm deals 3 damage to each creature.
• Slagstorm deals 3 damage to each player.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Foundations
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #7357
Slagstorm clears the board of small creatures or domes every opponent for 3 — your choice — for three mana, and that flexibility is the whole argument. In Niv-Mizzet, Visionary decks specifically, the damage-to-opponents mode triggers Niv on each player hit, turning a punisher spell into card draw.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
Niv-Mizzet, Visionary triggers whenever opponents take damage from noncombat sources, so Slagstorm aimed at all three opponents generates up to three separate triggers — draw three, ping three. It shows up in over 27% of Niv lists for exactly that reason.
Neheb, the Eternal
Neheb, the Eternal converts postcombat damage dealt to opponents into red mana, and Slagstorm in the second main step is a clean way to bank extra mana for the rest of the turn. The 3-damage-to-each-opponent mode alone can net six or more mana depending on the table.
Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence
Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence grows and deals damage whenever her controller takes noncombat damage, so Slagstorm's creature-sweep mode — which pings you for 3 alongside the field — feeds her counter accumulation and her triggered damage output simultaneously.
Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid
Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid hungers opponents whenever you're dealt damage, so Slagstorm's 3-to-each-player mode hits you too, turning a board sweeper into a forced-attack trigger across the table. Nearly 15% of Indoraptor lists run it as a dual-purpose threat.
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus doubles noncombat damage you deal to opponents, which turns Slagstorm's 3-to-each-opponent mode into 6 per player — 18 total damage across a table for three mana is a closing threat, not just a control tool.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Slagstorm earns its slot as a flexible answer: sweep tokens and mana dorks at sorcery speed, or threaten 9 total damage across the table when the board is already clean. The ceiling rises sharply in damage-matters builds with Niv-Mizzet, Visionary or Neheb, the Eternal, where the player-damage mode doubles as an engine piece. In Modern and Pioneer, Slagstorm competes with Anger of the Gods and Sweltering Suns — it loses the exile clause but gains the player-damage option, which rarely matters enough in those formats to justify the slot. Legacy and Vintage have too many fast threats that dodge three-damage sweepers entirely, so Slagstorm doesn't see play there. Pauper is the one format where it's not legal, which is the only place that restriction stings given how effective it would be against go-wide commons strategies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Slagstorm is deep bulk — you'll find copies in any dollar bin or bulk order without effort. Bulk rare pricing like this is stable by nature; there's no reason to expect movement in either direction, so just grab a copy when you need one.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.