Stormscale Anarch
Creature — Lizard Shaman
, Discard a card at random: This creature deals 2 damage to any target. If the discarded card was multicolored, this creature deals 4 damage instead.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dissension
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #30613
Stormscale Anarch puts a repeatable, no-mana-cost discard outlet directly on a 2/2 body — every turn, for free, at instant speed during your upkeep. The cost is real: discarding two cards to deal two damage is a steep rate unless you're building around filling a graveyard or emptying your hand anyway.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Stormscale Anarch is a niche role-player — it belongs in dedicated discard or graveyard-value decks and nowhere else, since paying two cards per turn is backbreaking in a format where card advantage is already slow. In Legacy and Vintage, the competition is so deep that a 2/2 with an upkeep discard ability doesn't register; Careful Study and Faithless Looting do the same job faster and cheaper. Modern is technically legal but practically irrelevant — the format has long since moved past slow creature-based discard engines. Stormscale Anarch finds its best home in the 99 of a Commander deck engineered to exploit every discard trigger, where the free, repeatable activation outweighs the card cost.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Stormscale Anarch is deep bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not any demand. It won't appreciate; it's a casual-only card with a narrow enough use case that supply will always outpace interest.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.