Stormcrag Elemental
Creature — Elemental
Trample
Megamorph 
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 
. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dragons of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #27819
Stormcrag Elemental lands as a 6/6 trampler with ward 2 for six mana — solid stats that demand an answer. The mountaincycling stapled to it means a dead draw in bad games becomes a land, which is exactly the kind of safety valve big red wants.
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, Stormcrag Elemental earns its slot in Elemental tribal, mountain-matters, or big red builds specifically because the mountaincycling keeps it from rotting in hand when you're mana-short. In competitive formats like Modern and Legacy, a vanilla 6/6 for six with no immediate impact is too slow to see play, and the cycling rarely compensates for that tempo loss. Pioneer is in the same boat — the card is legal but functionally irrelevant at that price point on the curve. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card variant where a mountaincycler might sneak in as a toolbox piece in a red storm or Valakut shell, but that's a narrow application.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Stormcrag Elemental is deep bulk — you're acquiring it for pennies in trade binders or draft chaff. That price is stable precisely because demand is low and supply is high, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.