Thunderclap
Instant
You may sacrifice a Mountain rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Thunderclap deals 3 damage to target creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #15325
Thunderclap deals damage and taps a creature — two effects on one card, but neither is efficient enough to compete with dedicated removal or combat tricks at this cost. It's a bulk common for a reason.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Thunderclap is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Pauper, where commons live or die by efficiency, it falls short of staples like Lightning Bolt that simply do more for less. In Commander, the tap effect is marginal at a 100-card table where threats multiply faster than single-target tricks can answer them. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the card doesn't interact with the formats' core game plans at any meaningful speed.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Thunderclap sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to move — there's no competitive demand or scarcity to push it higher. Pick it up if a specific pet deck calls for it, but don't expect the price to matter either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.