Sorcerous Squall
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Target opponent mills nine cards, then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
Rulings
6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2023-11-03
If the spell has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- 2023-11-03
If you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you do so as part of the resolution of Sorcerous Squall. You can't wait to cast one later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on a spell's type are ignored.
- 2023-11-03
If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost", you can't pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the card.
- 2023-11-03
Delve doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value. For example, Sorcerous Squall's mana value is 9 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.
- 2023-11-03
You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can't exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can't exile more than six cards from your graveyard to cast Sorcerous Squall unless an effect has increased its cost.
- 2023-11-03
Because delve isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Sorcerous Squall, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zellix, Sanity Flayer | 2 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Blue 2 decks
Sorcerous Squall price history
The Tales of Middle-earth Commander #504 · Inverted 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 27, 2026 | $0.98 | $0.68 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.98 | $0.72 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $0.96 | $0.73 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $0.96 | $0.72 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.97 | $0.72 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.96 | $0.72 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.96 | $0.69 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.96 | $0.68 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.96 | $0.67 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.96 | $0.69 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.96 | $0.70 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.97 | $0.70 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.97 | $0.71 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $1.02 | $0.71 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $1.02 | $0.74 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Sorcerous Squall
2 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.
Inverted
Tales of Middle-earth Commander
- Normal
- $0.98
- Foil
- $0.68
Inverted
Tales of Middle-earth Commander
- Foil
- $5.35
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Sorcerous Squall. 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.
