Is Within Range good in Commander?

Within Range in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Within Range deals damage equal to a creature's power to another target creature — a clean, efficient removal spell that scales with what you're already attacking with. In Zurgo Stormrender decks, where your creatures are built to be large and aggressive, this often reads as "destroy target creature" for two mana.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Zurgo Stormrender

64.5% of decks · synergy 0.55

Zurgo Stormrender attacks with a 7/2 trampler by default, and Within Range turns that power stat into a removal spell that kills nearly anything on the board before combat damage even resolves.

02

Zurgo, Thunder's Decree generates an army of tokens that grow with each attack trigger, so Within Range scales up naturally as the board state develops — removal that gets better the more you're winning.

03

Neriv, Crackling Vanguard

46.3% of decks · synergy 0.37

Neriv, Crackling Vanguard cares about charging creatures and power-matters effects, making Within Range a removal spell that pulls double duty in a deck already invested in making its creatures as large as possible.

04

Mishra, Claimed by Gix

15.7% of decks · synergy 0.15

Mishra, Claimed by Gix rewards aggressive, multi-pronged attacks, and Within Range gives that shell a way to clear blockers mid-combat or pick off utility creatures threatening to slow the army down.

05

Isshin, Two Heavens as One

22.6% of decks · synergy 0.14

Isshin, Two Heavens as One runs enough attack triggers and wide boards that Within Range earns its slot as cheap interaction that doesn't compete with the deck's other combat-step payoffs for mana.

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

Within Range is a Commander card through and through — the powered-up creatures in that format make the damage output genuinely threatening, and the four-player table means removal that doubles as a combat trick has more targets to justify the slot. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, creature power rarely reaches the thresholds needed for this to compete with Swords to Plowshares or Fatal Push, so it sees no meaningful play there. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: if your planeswalker shell runs large creatures, Within Range is efficient spot removal; otherwise it's not the right tool.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.28 bulk tier

At $0.28, Within Range is firmly bulk — a card you pick up by the handful without thinking about it. Bulk rares with format-specific homes tend to stay flat unless something breaks them into wider formats, and Within Range's legality ceiling makes that unlikely, so treat it as a cheap pickup for the decks that want it and nothing more.