
Etali, Primal Storm
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
Whenever Etali attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.
The storm rages and the earth breaks.
6 / 6
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Otepec Huntmaster
- Generator Servant
- Strionic Resonator
- Relentless Assault
- Combat Celebrant
- Seize the Day
- Urabrask the Hidden
- Moraug, Fury of Akoum
- Scourge of the Throne
- Karlach, Fury of Avernus
- Wild-Magic Sorcerer
- Rising of the Day
- World at War
- Helm of the Host
- Anger
- Port Razer
- Nalfeshnee
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Rogue's Passage
- Thran Dynamo
- Lightning Greaves
- Aggravated Assault
- Plargg and Nassari
- Flaming Tyrannosaurus
- Passionate Archaeologist
- Fury of the Horde
- Savage Beating
- Bloodsworn Steward
- Keeper of Secrets
- Full Throttle
- Crashing Drawbridge
- Whispersilk Cloak
- Geosurge
- Worn Powerstone
- Sensei's Divining Top
- Bolt Bend
- Mind Stone
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Burnished Hart
- Mana Geyser
- Flamekin Village
- Gogo, Mysterious Mime
- Seething Song
- Hellkite Charger
- Hedron Archive
- Enduring Courage
- Arena of Glory
- Temple of the False God
- Wayfarer's Bauble
- Hanweir Battlements
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Mountain
- Sol Ring
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Chaos Warp
- Arcane Signet
- Lightning Greaves
- Ruby Medallion
- Blasphemous Act
- Otepec Huntmaster
- Rogue's Passage
- Mind Stone
- Strionic Resonator
- Mana Geyser
- Generator Servant
- Seething Song
- Combat Celebrant
- Relentless Assault
- Vandalblast
- Anger
- Seize the Day
- Urabrask the Hidden
- Abrade
- Scourge of the Throne
- Moraug, Fury of Akoum
- Rising of the Day
- Karlach, Fury of Avernus
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Faithless Looting
- Bolt Bend
- Jeska's Will
- Helm of the Host
- The Fire Crystal
- Fire Diamond
- Aggravated Assault
- Myriad Landscape
- Thran Dynamo
- Wild-Magic Sorcerer
- World at War
- Arena of Glory
- Thrill of Possibility
- Port Razer
- Big Score
- Nalfeshnee
- Fellwar Stone
- Passionate Archaeologist
- Plargg and Nassari
- Full Throttle
- Cursed Mirror
- Deflecting Swat
- Flaming Tyrannosaurus
Format legality
Rulings
- 2021-03-19
Any cards not cast, including land cards, remain in exile. They can't be cast on later turns, even if Etali attacks again.
- 2021-03-19
Because all attacking creatures are chosen at once, a creature cast this way can't attack during the same combat as Etali, even if it has haste.
- 2021-03-19
If an exiled card has
in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- 2021-03-19
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.
- 2021-03-19
If you cast any of the exiled cards, you do so as part of the resolution of the triggered ability. You can't wait to cast them later in the turn. Timing permissions based on a card's type are ignored, and the spells resolve before blockers are declared.
- 2021-03-19
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.
- 2021-03-19
In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any spells or permanents you control from Etali's ability are exiled.