Experimental Overload

Sorcery

Create an X/X blue and red Weird creature token, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Then you may return an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Experimental Overload.

Explosions aren't necessarily failures, just a different kind of success.

Set: Core Set 2021 (M21 #218)
Rarity: Uncommon
Mana value: 4
Released: 2020-07-03
Artist: Lie Setiawan
EDHREC rank: #13,017
Colour identity
Finishes: Nonfoil, Foil
Served from: Local database

Commander bracket

1 +

Fits any bracket

No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.32

How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.

Recursion

Combos

Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.

Format legality

Standard Not legal

Pioneer Legal

Modern Legal

Legacy Legal

Vintage Legal

Pauper Not legal

Commander Legal

Oathbreaker Legal

Duel Commander Legal

Brawl Legal

Standard Brawl Not legal

Historic Legal

Timeless Legal

Alchemy Not legal

Penny Legal

Premodern Not legal

PreDH Not legal

Pauper EDH Not legal

Old School Not legal

Future Not legal

Gladiator Legal

All printings Scryfall ↗Gatherer ↗Edhrec ↗

Rulings

2020-06-23
Because Experimental Overload is still on the stack while it's resolving, it doesn't count towards the value of X.
2020-06-23
The value of X is determined only as Experimental Overload resolves. The Weird's power and toughness don't change if the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard changes.
2020-06-23
You exile Experimental Overload even if you don't return a card to your hand.