Waterspout Djinn
Creature — Djinn
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #30535
Waterspout Djinn is a 4/4 flyer for four mana with a meaningful drawback: if you don't return an island to hand during your upkeep, it bounces itself. The payoff is real, but the island dependency makes it a reliable threat only in dedicated mono-blue or heavy-blue shells.
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 |
In Commander, Waterspout Djinn is a fringe include — blue has no shortage of four-mana flyers that don't require upkeep maintenance, so it only earns a slot in decks that actively want to bounce lands or run enough islands to never miss the trigger. Legacy and Vintage have access to it legally, but neither format has any reason to run a vanilla-adjacent creature with an upkeep cost when the card pool is that deep. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case where a tight blue curve might give Waterspout Djinn a look, but the competition is still stiff.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Waterspout Djinn is deep bulk — easy to acquire, easy to ignore. It holds no meaningful price floor, and demand is low enough that the price is unlikely to move without an unlikely spike in niche combo interest.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.