Volcanic Eruption
Sorcery
Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Limited Edition Beta
- Price
- $87.98
- EDHREC rank
- #27701
Volcanic Eruption destroys up to X Mountains — where X is the blue mana you pour into it — at instant speed, making it a surgical land-destruction spell in a color that rarely gets that effect. The cost is real: you need blue mana and viable Mountain targets, which narrows the field sharply.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Volcanic Eruption is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the honest read is that it sees almost no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, land destruction is politically toxic and Volcanic Eruption only hits Mountains, so it's a narrow hate piece at best — relevant if your pod runs heavy red or Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle strategies. Legacy and Vintage have better options for anything resembling a control shell, and the Mountain restriction makes it irrelevant against most threat profiles. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's dynamics at a smaller scale, with the same narrow-target problem.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Volcanic Eruption costs $87.98 for an effect most decks can replicate — or outright replace — for a fraction of the price. Sinkhole and Wasteland hit any land without the Mountain restriction; Price of Progress punishes greedy manabases in Legacy for under a dollar; in Commander, Ruination does the same mass land destruction for around $3 and doesn't require you to specify basic Mountain targets.
Price Context
Current price
$87.98 premium tier
At $87.98, Volcanic Eruption sits in premium territory driven almost entirely by age and scarcity, not by demand from competitive play. The effect doesn't justify the price for any current format, and there's no reason to expect broad adoption to push it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.