Surtland Frostpyre
Land
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, , Sacrifice this land: Scry 2. This land deals 2 damage to each creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #16905
Surtland Frostpyre clears the board of small creatures and, in the right shell, draws you cards for doing it — six mana buys a one-sided wrath effect and a refill. Outside of Aegar, the Freezing Flame decks that turn excess damage into card advantage, that rate is too narrow to justify the slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Aegar, the Freezing Flame
Aegar, the Freezing Flame draws a card whenever a Giant or Wizard deals excess damage to a creature or player, and Surtland Frostpyre's flat-damage-to-all-creatures is tailor-made to generate that excess across every blocker on the table at once.
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 |
Surtland Frostpyre is a Commander card through and through — six mana is a real ask, but Commander's slower pace and multiplayer board states full of small utility creatures give the effect room to breathe. In Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, a six-mana sorcery that only hits creatures will never see play when cheaper, cleaner options exist at every power level. The Aegar, the Freezing Flame synergy is irrelevant outside Commander, so every other format treats this as a strictly overcosted sweeper with no compensating text.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Surtland Frostpyre sits firmly in bulk territory, which is exactly right for a card with one viable home. Bulk prices are stable by definition — there's no demand driver that moves a niche, single-commander card off the dollar-bin floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Aegar, the Freezing Flame
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.