Thunderous Orator

Creature — Kor Wizard

Vigilance
Whenever this creature attacks, it gains flying until end of turn if you control a creature with flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, indestructible, lifelink, menace, and trample.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Strixhaven: School of Mages
Price
$0.14
EDHREC rank
#19132
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Thunderous Orator card art
Thunderous Orator turns every enchantment you control into a vigilance-and-flying grant for the whole team — a wide-board payoff that scales hard in enchantress shells. The cost is a four-mana 3/3 with no immediate protection, so it needs a populated board to matter.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

In Commander, Thunderous Orator is a dedicated enchantress payoff — it does nothing in isolation and everything in a deck that floods the board with enchantments, where the flying and vigilance grant turns a wide token army into an aerial threat. Competitive non-Commander formats haven't found a home for it: Modern and Legacy enchantment strategies prefer more redundant or resilient threats, and a 3/3 for four with a conditional anthem doesn't clear the efficiency bar those formats demand. Pioneer is theoretically legal but faces the same problem — enchantment payoffs there tend to close games faster on their own. Thunderous Orator is a Commander card through and through, best treated as a role-player in the 75–100 card format where the enchantment density it needs is easiest to build around.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.14 bulk tier

At $0.14, Thunderous Orator is deep bulk — easy to pick up in trade binders or as a throw-in. It's unlikely to appreciate unless a future Commander precon puts it in front of a large audience, so treat it as a free include if the synergy fits, not a spec.

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    Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.