Storrev, Devkarin Lich
Legendary Creature — Zombie Elf Wizard
Trample
Whenever Storrev deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, return to your hand target creature or planeswalker card in your graveyard that wasn't put there this combat.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- War of the Spark Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #12617
Storrev, Devkarin Lich returns a permanent from your graveyard to your hand whenever it deals combat damage — and it does that as a 4/3 lifelink, trample, haste creature for five mana. The cost is that it only triggers off damage to players or planeswalkers, so it goes dead against a stabilized board, but in any deck that curves into open attacks it's a recursive engine stapled to a threat.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Carth the Lion
Carth the Lion runs Storrev, Devkarin Lich in over a third of its decks because Storrev's graveyard recursion recovers planeswalkers that Carth already wants on board — deal combat damage, get back a fallen walker, and immediately leverage Carth's passive to tick it up an extra loyalty.
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 |
Storrev, Devkarin Lich is a Commander card through and through — five mana is acceptable in a 40-life format where you have time to develop, and the recursion payoff compounds over a long game in ways that matter at a multiplayer table. In Legacy and Vintage, the competition at five mana is brutal and Storrev's trigger requires actually connecting with combat damage, which is a liability against the fast, interaction-dense environments those formats produce. Modern and Pioneer are similar: five mana needs to either win the game or dominate the board immediately, and Storrev does neither reliably enough to compete with format staples. Stick to Commander, where the lifelink, trample, and haste package makes it a genuine threat and the graveyard value has turns to accumulate.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
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Current pricing data for Storrev, Devkarin Lich isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given its narrow Commander niche and lack of crossover into competitive formats, it has historically sat in the bulk-rare range — worth picking up if you're building the archetype, but not a card to prioritize at elevated prices.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.