Dance with Calamity
- Mana cost
- {7}{R}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #243 (rare)
- Price
- $0.25 USD
Shuffle your library. As many times as you choose, you may exile the top card of your library. If the total mana value of the cards exiled this way is 13 or less, you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.
Dance with Calamity has 4 printings, first in March of the Machine Commander (2023). EDHREC ranks it #4,153 among Commander cards. It appears most in Lorehold, the Historian decks (5,616 on EDHREC). 2 public decks on TCG run it. It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Dance with Calamity
- Prismari Artistry - Secrets of Strixhaven, led by Rootha, Mastering the Moment
- Tinker Time - March of the Machine Commander, led by Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy
Commanders that run Dance with Calamity most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Lorehold, the Historian: 5,616 decks
- Rootha, Mastering the Moment: 3,517 decks
- Neera, Wild Mage: 1,069 decks
- Prosper, Tome-Bound: 1,056 decks
- Magar of the Magic Strings: 957 decks
- Rocco, Street Chef: 934 decks
- Yusri, Fortune's Flame: 873 decks
- Alania, Divergent Storm: 735 decks
Often played with Dance with Calamity
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You can look at each card you exile before deciding whether to push your luck or stop.
- : If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the card.
- : If an exiled card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- : If you cast any of the exiled cards, you do so as part of the resolution of the spell. You can't wait to cast them later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on a card's type are ignored.
- : Any cards not cast, including land cards, remain in exile. They can't be cast on later turns.
- : If you cast more than one of the exiled cards, you choose the order in which to cast them. A spell you cast this way can be the target of a later spell you cast this way. However, permanent spells cast this way won't resolve until you're done casting spells, so the permanents they become can't be the target of spells cast this way. For example, if you exile Twincast and Lightning Strike, you can cast Lightning Strike and then cast Twincast targeting it; but if you exile a creature card and an Aura card, you can't cast that Aura targeting that creature.
- : If you danced with calamity a little too closely, and the total mana value of the exiled cards is greater than 13, the cards you exiled will remain there and you won't get to cast any of them.