Sorcerous Squall
Sorcery
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 
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Target opponent mills nine cards, then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
- CMC
- 9
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander
- Price
- $1.11
- EDHREC rank
- #8251
Sorcerous Squall mills each opponent for three and draws you a card — all on a single instant at three mana. Saruman of Many Colors gets double the spell trigger for one cast, which makes this one of the cleaner cantripping mill payoffs in blue-black.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Saruman of Many Colors
Saruman of Many Colors copies Sorcerous Squall when you cast it while having the ring tempt you, turning one spell into two mill-and-draw triggers and pulling this card into 35% of Saruman lists.
Gandalf of the Secret Fire
Gandalf of the Secret Fire rewards the first instant or sorcery you cast each turn with a free card off the top, so Sorcerous Squall becomes mill-three-plus-draw-two in a single shot — exactly the kind of cantripping spell Gandalf wants to chain.
Zevlor, Elturel Exile
Zevlor, Elturel Exile copies spells that target only a single opponent and redirects them to each other opponent, so Sorcerous Squall's targeted mill hits the whole table when Zevlor is in play.
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubles each mill trigger, so Sorcerous Squall's three cards become six per opponent — a meaningful chunk in a deck trying to run libraries out.
The Mindskinner
The Mindskinner puts poison counters on players whenever they mill cards, converting every Sorcerous Squall cast into three potential infect triggers per targeted opponent and creating a second win condition on top of the mill itself.
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 |
Commander is where Sorcerous Squall actually earns its slot — three-player mills add up fast, the cantrip replaces itself, and dedicated mill commanders turn it into a multi-target haymaker. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant: those formats move too fast for a three-mana sorcery that doesn't impact the board or generate enough mill to matter. Oathbreaker is the other home worth watching, since signature spell decks that want cheap, recurrent mill with upside can loop Sorcerous Squall effectively.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.11 cheap tier
At $1.11, Sorcerous Squall sits in the budget-staple tier — low enough to slot in without a second thought. It's a niche role-player rather than a format pillar, so the price is unlikely to spike unless a major mill commander breaks through, but it's already correctly priced for what it does.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.