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Storm Herd

Sorcery

Create X 1/1 white Pegasus creature tokens with flying, where X is your life total.

CMC
10
Mana cost
{8}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Guildpact
Price
$1.39
EDHREC rank
#3117
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Storm Herd card art
Storm Herd puts a lethal army on the board in one shot — at ten mana, it creates a number of 1/1 flying Pegasus tokens equal to your life total, which at any reasonable life count ends the game on the next attack. The cost is steep and the card is a do-nothing sorcery until you untap, but pair it with Cathars' Crusade or a life-gain commander like Lorehold, the Historian and the ceiling is absurd.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Lorehold, the Historian

Lorehold, the Historian

75.3% of decks · synergy 0.72

Lorehold, the Historian's life-gain engine routinely pushes totals past 40, so Storm Herd often produces 50 or more flying tokens — a number that ends a four-player table in a single combat.

02
Thurid, Mare of Destiny

Thurid, Mare of Destiny

73.6% of decks · synergy 0.71

Thurid, Mare of Destiny cares about life gained each turn, and Storm Herd closing the game after a big life-gain spike is exactly the late-game payoff that strategy wants.

03
Will, Scion of Peace

Will, Scion of Peace

70.4% of decks · synergy 0.66

Will, Scion of Peace reduces spell costs based on life gained, which can take Storm Herd from ten mana down to a dramatically more castable number while also inflating the token count.

04
Elminster

Elminster

65.2% of decks · synergy 0.61

Elminster decks accumulate life through scry triggers and incidental gain, and Storm Herd converts that padded life total directly into a board that demands an answer or wins on the spot.

05
Kangee, Sky Warden

Kangee, Sky Warden

28.1% of decks · synergy 0.24

Storm Herd floods the board with flying bodies that Kangee, Sky Warden immediately buffs, turning what would otherwise be a swarm of 1/1s into a lethal aerial strike.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the only format where Storm Herd is genuinely powerful — starting life totals of 40 mean the token count is meaningful from the first casting, and multiplayer tables give you a full turn to protect the investment. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but a ten-mana sorcery with no immediate protection is unplayable in those formats. Oathbreaker is a plausible home if your planeswalker supports a life-gain strategy, though the 60-card smaller format compresses games fast enough that ten mana arrives rarely. Storm Herd is a Commander card through and through.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$1.39 cheap tier

At $1.39, Storm Herd is cheap for the effect it delivers in Commander — a ten-mana token bomb that can produce 50-plus flying bodies is the kind of ceiling that usually commands a higher price tag. It holds value as a casual staple in any white life-gain deck, and the price is unlikely to move dramatically without a reprint in a high-profile product.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.