Storm Elemental
Creature — Elemental
Flying
, Exile the top card of your library: Tap target creature with flying., Exile the top card of your library: If the exiled card is a snow land, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Alliances
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #30694
Storm Elemental shuts down all activated abilities of lands the moment it enters, which is a genuinely disruptive effect stapled to a 4/4 flying body for five mana. The cost is real — five mana for a creature with no immediate protection is a liability — but the static effect is punishing enough in the right meta to justify the slot.
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 Storm Elemental has any real home, specifically in stax or control shells that want to tax mana rocks and utility lands like Cabal Coffers or Gaea's Cradle. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats but Storm Elemental has never been a consideration there — five mana for a 4/4 with a situational static effect doesn't come close to competing at those power levels. In Commander, the effect scales with how land-ability-dependent your opponents are, so it ranges from backbreaking in the right pod to a blank 4/4 against basic-heavy lists.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Storm Elemental is deep bulk — you're not paying for it, you're paying for shipping. Bulk rares with narrow stax applications don't appreciate unless a commander that slots them perfectly spikes in popularity, so don't expect movement.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.