Warstorm Surge card art

Warstorm Surge

Enchantment MV 6

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What it doesCombosRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

Whenever a creature you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Combos with Warstorm Surge

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2011-09-22

    Warstorm Surge is the source of the ability, but the creature is the source of the damage. The ability couldn't target a creature with protection from red, for example. It could target a creature with protection from creatures, but all the damage would be prevented. Since damage is dealt by the creature, abilities like lifelink, deathtouch and infect are taken into account, even if the creature has left the battlefield by the time it deals damage.

  • 2011-09-22

    The creature that entered deals damage equal to its current power to the targeted permanent or player. If it's no longer on the battlefield, its last known existence on the battlefield is checked to determine its power.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Warstorm Surge, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 7
Games played 6
Win rate 33.3%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Eshki 1 4 —
Mahadi, Emporium Master 1 1 —
Samut, Voice of Dissent 1 1 —
Atarka, World Render 1 0 —
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 1 0 —
Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Rakdos 1 deck
  • Jund 1 deck
  • Gruul 1 deck
  • Temur 1 deck
  • Naya 1 deck

Every version of Warstorm Surge

15 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Warstorm Surge — a name search across every version, for 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.