Volcanic Torrent

Oracle Text

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Volcanic Torrent deals X damage to each creature and planeswalker your opponents control, where X is the number of spells you've cast this turn.

Card Details

-/-Power / Toughness

4RMana Cost

5Prints

Set

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate · View all prints →

Character Background

Volcanic Torrent is a quintessential spellslinger payoff, best in a tempo or combo-leaning red deck that wants to chain cheap spells and convert that storm of activity into a sweeping burn finish. Because the damage to each opposing creature and planeswalker scales with the number of spells you’ve already cast this turn, it rewards cantrips, rituals, free interaction, and token-generating instants that let you snowball before dropping this as a finisher. Cascade adds extra upside, potentially turning the Torrent into a two-spell turn that fuels the damage count even further, so it plays especially well in decks with a low average mana value. In Commander, it can punish boards that rely on walkers or go-wide value engines, while in a Niv-Mizzet or Jeska-style shell it can serve as both removal and a lethal swing. Build to cast multiple spells early in the turn, then let the torrent clear the way.

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