Surging Might
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.
Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as this spell from among those cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Coldsnap
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #30953
Surging Might stacks +1/+1 counters each time a creature deals combat damage to a player, turning any evasive threat into an exponentially growing problem. At one green mana, it's one of the most mana-efficient ways to accelerate a voltron or counter-synergy gameplan.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Surging Might belongs on commanders that already connect reliably — infect, evasion, or trample commanders turn the repeated counter triggers into a closing clock fast. Pauper is where it earns the most respect: at common, it's a genuine build-around in aggressive green strategies where repeated combat damage is the whole game plan. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power to make it irrelevant outside of dedicated synergy shells, but Surging Might costs nothing to slot into a creature-combat deck and the ceiling is high enough to justify it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Surging Might is deep bulk — buy a playset for less than the cost of a sleeve. Price stability is essentially guaranteed at this floor; there's nowhere lower to go, and any spike in counter-synergy interest would push it, not drop it.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.