Stormcloud Spirit
Creature — Spirit
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Treasure Chest
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #30425
Stormcloud Spirit is a flying beater with conditional evasion — the kind of card that earns its slot in decks that want redundant pressure in the air but struggles to justify a roster spot anywhere the competition is stiff. The mana cost puts it in range for mid-game deployment, but without an enters-the-battlefield effect or built-in resilience, you're paying full price for a body that does exactly one thing.
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 the only realistic home for Stormcloud Spirit, and even there it sits at the fringe — 99-card decks can afford niche inclusions, but a vanilla-adjacent flier needs a deck that specifically rewards spirit tribal, flying synergies, or graveyard recursion loops to earn a cut. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper but irrelevant in practice; Stormcloud Spirit doesn't come close to the power threshold those formats demand. If you're running it, it's in a spirit-tribal shell under a commander like Millicent, Restless Revenant or alongside payoffs that care about creature type, not because the card stands on its own.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Stormcloud Spirit isn't currently available, which itself signals this is a bulk-rare-or-lower situation — cards with real demand have real prices. Pick it up out of a bulk bin if a spirit tribal deck calls for it; there's no reason to pay a premium.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.