Etali, Primal Storm card art

Etali, Primal Storm

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur MV 6

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Whenever Etali attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Rulings

7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2021-03-19

    If an exiled card has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

  • 2021-03-19

    Any cards not cast, including land cards, remain in exile. They can't be cast on later turns, even if Etali attacks again.

  • 2021-03-19

    If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the card.

  • 2021-03-19

    In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any spells or permanents you control from Etali's ability are exiled.

  • 2021-03-19

    Because all attacking creatures are chosen at once, a creature cast this way can't attack during the same combat as Etali, even if it has haste.

  • 2021-03-19

    If you cast more than one of the exiled cards, you choose the order in which to cast them. A spell you cast this way can be the target of a later spell you cast this way. However, permanent spells cast this way won't resolve until you're done casting spells, so the permanents they become can't be the target of spells cast this way. For example, if you exile Twincast and Lightning Strike, you can cast Lightning Strike and then cast Twincast targeting it; but if you exile a creature card and an Aura card, you can't cast that Aura targeting that creature.

  • 2021-03-19

    If you cast any of the exiled cards, you do so as part of the resolution of the triggered ability. You can't wait to cast them later in the turn. Timing permissions based on a card's type are ignored, and the spells resolve before blockers are declared.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Etali, Primal Storm, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 20
Games played 32
Win rate 34.4%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 4 16 31.3%
Bello, Bard of the Brambles 2 0 —
Spider-Punk 2 0 —
Eshki 1 7 57.1%
Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 1 7 28.6%
Samut, Voice of Dissent 1 2 —
Gishath, Sun's Avatar 1 0 —
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Naya 6 decks
  • Mono-Red 3 decks
  • Gruul 3 decks
  • Temur 2 decks
  • Rakdos 1 deck
  • Jund 1 deck
  • Mardu 1 deck

Etali, Primal Storm price history

The Foundations #194 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.65▲ $0.08 (14.0%)
Low $0.55 · High $0.70Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Oct 27, 2026$0.65$0.79
Oct 26, 2026$0.64$0.79
Oct 25, 2026$0.63$0.79
Oct 23, 2026$0.61$0.80
Oct 22, 2026$0.58$0.80
Oct 21, 2026$0.56$0.81
Oct 19, 2026$0.55$0.80
Oct 17, 2026$0.57$0.80
Oct 16, 2026$0.60$0.80
Oct 15, 2026$0.62$0.80
Oct 13, 2026$0.59$0.80
Oct 12, 2026$0.59$0.83
Oct 11, 2026$0.60$0.83
Oct 10, 2026$0.65$0.83
Oct 9, 2026$0.66$0.83
Oct 8, 2026$0.65$0.83
Oct 7, 2026$0.67$0.83
Oct 6, 2026$0.70$0.83
Oct 5, 2026$0.65$0.83
Oct 4, 2026$0.66$0.83
Oct 3, 2026$0.67$0.83
Oct 2, 2026$0.66$0.83
Oct 1, 2026$0.64$0.83
Sep 30, 2026$0.64$0.81
Sep 29, 2026$0.61$0.82
Sep 28, 2026$0.57$0.83

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Etali, Primal Storm

23 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Etali, Primal Storm. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.