Storm Spirit
Creature — Elemental Spirit
Flying
: This creature deals 2 damage to target creature.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GUW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Masters Edition II
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #30720
Storm Spirit is a 3/3 flying creature for five mana that deals 1 damage to any target whenever you cast an instant or sorcery — reasonable stats with a built-in ping engine that scales directly with spell volume. The cost is steep enough that it only earns its slot in decks that reliably cast three or more instants and sorceries per turn cycle.
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 Spirit has any real home, and even there it competes hard against cheaper, higher-ceiling payoffs in Izzet and Jeskai spellslinger shells. Legacy and Vintage have the card technically available but no reason to run it — those formats' instant and sorcery payoffs start at considerably more broken baselines. Storm Spirit is not legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper, which cuts off the non-rotating and budget formats where incremental damage engines sometimes find niches. In Oathbreaker, a high-spell-volume signature spell could make the ping relevant, but five mana for a 3/3 is still a hard sell at that game's compressed pace.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Storm Spirit is currently unavailable, so treat any listing you find as the market rate until better data surfaces. Given its niche playability and age, it typically moves as a bulk rare — worth grabbing cheaply if you're building a dedicated spellslinger list, but not a card to chase at a premium.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.