Primal Surge
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Exile the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you do, repeat this process.
Combos with Primal Surge
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Thassa's Oracle Selective Memory Infinite
- Win the game
- Laboratory Maniac Selective Memory Infinite
- Win the game
- Jace, Wielder of Mysteries Selective Memory Infinite
- Win the game
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2012-05-01
If putting any of those permanent cards onto the battlefield causes abilities to trigger, those abilities will wait to go on the stack until Primal Surge has finished resolving. Starting with the active player, each player puts their abilities on the stack in any order.
- 2012-05-01
Repeating the process includes the instruction to repeat the process. That is, you’ll keep exiling cards and putting them onto the battlefield until you fail to put a permanent card onto the battlefield.
- 2012-05-01
If you exile a permanent card that you can’t put onto the battlefield (such as an Aura with nothing legal to enchant) or one you don’t want to put onto the battlefield, Primal Surge finishes resolving.
- 2012-05-01
A permanent card is an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Primal Surge, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuvasa the Sunlit | 1 | 1 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Bant 1 deck
Primal Surge price history
The Avacyn Restored #189 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2026 | $5.39 | $24.50 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $5.36 | $24.50 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $5.35 | $24.10 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $5.34 | $24.10 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $5.36 | $24.10 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $5.39 | $24.10 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $5.45 | $24.10 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $5.45 | $23.40 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $5.45 | $22.71 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Primal Surge
1 printing, 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.
Avacyn Restored
- Normal
- $5.39
- Foil
- $24.50
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Primal Surge. 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.
