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Volatile Stormdrake

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Blue. Creature — Drake

one generic manaone blue mana

Volatile Stormdrake

Modern Horizons 3 #79 · Illustrated by Campbell White

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Non-foil · Modern Horizons 3 #79

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Borderless foil · Modern Horizons 3 #329

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Oracle text

Flying, hexproof from activated and triggered abilities

When this creature enters, exchange control of this creature and target creature an opponent controls. If you do, you get an energy counteran energy counteran energy counteran energy counter, then sacrifice that creature unless you pay an amount of an energy counter equal to its mana value.

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All 4 printings of Volatile Stormdrake

PrintingRarityNon-foilFoilCardmarket (EUR)My collection
Modern Horizons 3 #329
Modern Horizons 3
mh3 #329· 2024Borderlessrare· Cardmarket €3.74 · €13.33 foil
rare$5.08$20.11€3.74€13.33 foil
Modern Horizons 3 #404
Modern Horizons 3
mh3 #404· 2024Retro Framerare· Cardmarket €1.44 · €4.58 foil
rare$1.31$6.96€1.44€4.58 foil
Modern Horizons 3 Promos #79s
Modern Horizons 3 Promos
pmh3 #79s· 2024Promorare· Cardmarket €2.46 foil
rareNo non-foil printing$3.24€2.46 foil

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Card details

First printed
2024
Printings
4
Mana value
2
EDHREC rank
#2,067 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
Keywords
Flying, Hexproof from, Hexproof
Artists
Campbell White, Xavier Ribeiro

Rulings (13)

  1. 2024-06-07

    Energy counters aren't mana. They don't go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana "of any type" can't give you energy counters.

  2. 2024-06-07

    If an effect says you get one or more an energy counter, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more an energy counter, you lose that many energy counters. You can't pay more energy counters than you have. Any effects that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with energy counters.

  3. 2024-06-07

    Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.

  4. 2024-06-07

    In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, the effect giving you control of the target creature ends.

  5. 2024-06-07

    Volatile Stormdrake can't be the target of any activated or triggered abilities your opponents control.

  6. 2024-06-07

    The effect of Volatile Stormdrake's last ability lasts indefinitely. It doesn't wear off during the cleanup step, and it doesn't expire if Volatile Stormdrake leaves the battlefield.

  7. 2024-06-07

    Keep track of how many energy counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing theme down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine. (At higher levels of tournament play, dice may not be allowed for tracking counters that players have.)

  8. 2024-06-07

    As Volatile Stormdrake's last ability resolves, Volatile Stormdrake must be on the battlefield and the target creature must be a legal target. If either of these things isn't true, the ability does nothing.

  9. 2024-06-07

    Some triggered abilities that state that you "may pay" a certain amount of an energy counter describe an effect that happens "If you do." In that case, no player may take actions to try to stop the ability's effect after you make your choice. If the payment is followed by the phrase "When you do," then you'll choose any targets for that reflexive triggered ability and put it on the stack before players can take actions.

  10. 2024-06-07

    an energy counter is the energy symbol. It represents one energy counter.

  11. 2024-06-07

    Some spells and abilities that give you an energy counter may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't get any an energy counter.

  12. 2024-06-07

    If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you "may pay" some amount of an energy counter, and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won't resolve. You can't pay any an energy counter even if you want to.

  13. 2024-06-07

    Some triggered abilities state that you "may pay" a certain amount of an energy counter. You can't pay that amount multiple times to multiply the effect. You simply choose whether or not to pay that amount of an energy counter as the ability resolves.

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