Storm Herald
Creature — Human Shaman
Haste
When this creature enters, return any number of Aura cards from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to creatures you control. Exile those Auras at the beginning of your next end step. If those Auras would leave the battlefield, exile them instead of putting them anywhere else.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #18835
Storm Herald enters and staples every Aura in your graveyard onto it until end of turn — that's a potential one-shot swing with zero setup cost beyond filling your graveyard. The catch is that everything falls off at your next end step, so you need lethal damage in the same window or the investment evaporates.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Stangg, Echo Warrior
Stangg, Echo Warrior copies Auras onto token doubles, which means the temporary Auras Storm Herald retrieves can land on both Stangg and his echo — doubling the damage output and making the "exile at end of turn" clause hurt far less when you've already swung for lethal.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Storm Herald is a finisher disguised as a three-drop — drop it after a mid-game combat step has loaded your graveyard with Auras, swing for a massive unblockable (or otherwise buffed) attack, and you're done. Modern and Pioneer have more graveyard hate, which punishes the setup Storm Herald demands; it sees fringe play in dedicated Aura-recursion shells but isn't a staple in either. Legacy and Vintage have faster, more consistent ways to close games, so Storm Herald rarely shows up there outside of casual brews. Commander is unambiguously where it performs best.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Storm Herald sits squarely in bulk territory — pick it up as a throw-in. Bulk rares with narrow combo applications tend to stay cheap, so there's no urgency to buy multiples as a hedge.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.