Storm of Souls

Sorcery

Return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Each of them is a 1/1 Spirit with flying in addition to its other types. Exile Storm of Souls.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Magic Online Promos
Price
EDHREC rank
#4769
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Storm of Souls card art
Storm of Souls returns every creature in your graveyard to the battlefield as a 1/1 white Spirit with flying — at instant speed — which means a single sacrifice outlet like Goblin Bombardment can turn a board wipe into a rebuild on the spot. The seven-mana cost is real, but in Millicent, Restless Revenant decks that generate Spirit tokens on entry, the payoff scales far past face value.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Millicent, Restless Revenant

Millicent, Restless Revenant

61.8% of decks · synergy 0.60

Millicent, Restless Revenant triggers off every nontoken Spirit that enters the battlefield, so Storm of Souls converting a full graveyard into a wave of 1/1 fliers can generate an equal number of Millicent tokens in the same turn — effectively doubling the board state from a single spell.

02
Zinnia, Valley's Voice

Zinnia, Valley's Voice

48.5% of decks · synergy 0.45

Zinnia, Valley's Voice cares about creatures with flying entering under your control, and Storm of Souls floods the battlefield with exactly that; the mass reanimation lines up cleanly with Zinnia's anthem and token-generation triggers.

03
King of the Oathbreakers

King of the Oathbreakers

20.3% of decks · synergy 0.19

King of the Oathbreakers rewards running a high density of Spirits, and Storm of Souls is one of the few mass-reanimation effects that produces Spirits by default, making it a natural fit for the Rogue-Spirit tribal shell.

04
Preston, the Vanisher

Preston, the Vanisher

13.2% of decks · synergy 0.12

Preston, the Vanisher creates Fox Illusion tokens whenever nontoken creatures enter on your side, so Storm of Souls reanimating a full graveyard of creatures translates directly into a matching wave of Preston triggers.

05
Delney, Streetwise Lookout

Delney, Streetwise Lookout

8.2% of decks · synergy 0.07

Delney, Streetwise Lookout doubles triggers from creatures with power two or less, and every creature Storm of Souls returns enters as a 1/1 — putting every one of those entering bodies inside Delney's doubling window.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Storm of Souls is a Commander card through and through — the power of mass reanimation scales with the size of your graveyard, and 100-card singleton games accumulate creature density that 60-card formats simply don't match. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but seven mana at instant speed is never competing with Reanimate or Show and Tell, so it sees no meaningful play there. Oathbreaker is the only other format where it has a realistic home, and only in Spirits-adjacent piles where the creature type matters. Everywhere else, Storm of Souls sits on the shelf.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Storm of Souls isn't currently available in our database, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate before buying. Given the card's narrow tribal application and non-rotation-proof format legality, it tends to sit in the budget-to-mid range — worth picking up if you're building Millicent or a similar Spirits shell rather than speculating.

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