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Volcano Hellion

Creature — Hellion

This creature has echo {X}, where X is your life total. (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When this creature enters, it deals an amount of damage of your choice to you and target creature. The damage can't be prevented.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Planar Chaos
Price
$0.93
EDHREC rank
#17080
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Volcano Hellion card art
Volcano Hellion enters and deals damage equal to its power to target player — and that player chooses how much of it hits them, with the rest going back at you. In Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence decks, that reflexive self-damage is the entire point: you're engineering a massive life-loss trigger on purpose, and Volcano Hellion delivers it in one shot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence

Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence

67.0% of decks · synergy 0.67

Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence turns every point of self-inflicted damage into a +1/+1 counter and a ping, so Volcano Hellion's enter-the-battlefield damage dump is effectively a turbo-charge button — one cast can load Blyte with a dozen counters and immediately threaten lethal commander damage.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Volcano Hellion actually lives; outside of Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence builds, it sees nearly zero play because the symmetric damage clause is too awkward to build around in most contexts. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but never played — the effect is too slow and too conditional against interactive decks that answer a 7/3 before it untaps. Modern access doesn't change that picture. Volcano Hellion is a niche Commander card wearing a constructed-legal badge it will never cash in.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.93 bulk tier

At $0.93, Volcano Hellion sits at the high end of bulk — expensive for a card that sees play in exactly one commander archetype. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to climb, so grab it cheap if you're building Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence and don't stress if you don't.

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