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Venerated Stormsinger

Creature — Orc Cleric

Mobilize 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, create a tapped and attacking 1/1 red Warrior creature token. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Tarkir: Dragonstorm
Price
$0.30
EDHREC rank
#5724
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Venerated Stormsinger card art
Venerated Stormsinger gives your sorceries flash and untaps up to two lands when you cast one — that's a tempo swing that shows up the moment it hits the table. The cost is a two-mana 1/1 body that does nothing on its own, but in any shell built around Warren Soultrader-style sacrifice loops or Zurgo, Thunder's Decree's sorcery payoffs, that body is incidental to the engine it enables.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zurgo, Thunder's Decree

Zurgo, Thunder's Decree

59.9% of decks · synergy 0.55

Zurgo, Thunder's Decree is the natural home — casting sorceries is the whole game plan, and Venerated Stormsinger's flash plus land untap lets you hold up interaction on opponents' turns while still advancing your sorcery count toward Zurgo's triggers.

02
Zurgo Stormrender

Zurgo Stormrender

24.3% of decks · synergy 0.20

Zurgo Stormrender wants sorceries cast in volume, and Venerated Stormsinger's land untap effectively reduces the cost of each one by up to two mana, letting you chain spells further down the line than your mana base would otherwise support.

03
Neriv, Heart of the Storm

Neriv, Heart of the Storm

13.9% of decks · synergy 0.09

Neriv, Heart of the Storm cares about instant and sorcery synergies, and Venerated Stormsinger slides in as both a mana-efficiency piece and a flash enabler that keeps your sorceries live on opponents' end steps.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Venerated Stormsinger actually matters — the combination of flash and land untap is a real effect in a format where sorcery-speed commanders like Zurgo, Thunder's Decree build entire decks around casting sorceries efficiently. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, a 1/1 for two that only powers up dedicated sorcery synergies is too narrow to see play outside of fringe brews. Pioneer and Standard offer the same verdict: the card is legal, but the payoff density isn't there unless a dedicated sorcery-matters archetype emerges. Venerated Stormsinger is a Commander card through and through.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

161 decks
Tombstone StairwellVenerated Stormsinger

Tombstone StairwellVenerated Stormsinger

Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifeloss; Near-infinite lifegain triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite death triggers

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Price Context

Current price

$0.30 bulk tier

At $0.30, Venerated Stormsinger is bulk — easy to acquire and unlikely to stay this cheap if a sorcery-matters archetype spikes in any 60-card format. For Commander players, there's no reason to wait; it's an immediate pickup for any Zurgo, Thunder's Decree build.

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