Tremor
Sorcery
Tremor deals 1 damage to each creature without flying.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Second Age
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #19211
Tremor deals 1 damage to each creature without flying — a sweeper for ground-based token swarms at instant speed for a single red mana. It's efficient at what it does, but the ceiling is low: anything with a toughness above 1 walks away untouched, and Sonic the Hedgehog is the rare commander who squeezes real value out of it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog's speed-matters engine rewards cheap, castable spells, and Tremor slots in as a one-mana way to clear opposing 1/1 tokens while keeping Sonic's momentum going — the low cost means it rarely interrupts your own sequencing.
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, Tremor is a niche piece: token decks flood the board with 1/1s, and a one-mana instant that wipes them out can swing a game, but most tables run enough incidental flying or pumped creatures to make it a dead card in hand. In Pauper, where the card is legal, ground-based aggro and token strategies are more common, giving Tremor a marginally stronger home. Legacy and Vintage have it legal but functionally irrelevant — faster, more impactful options exist at every point on the curve. Tremor is Commander-specific in practice, and even there it earns a slot only in the right shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Tremor is firmly bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a narrow effect. That price is stable precisely because demand is low and supply is plentiful; don't expect it to move in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.