Dance with Calamity

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Dance with Calamity: Sorcery, Secrets of Strixhaven Commander. Shuffle your library. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{7}{R}
Mana value
8
Type
Sorcery
Colour identity
Red (R)
Rarity
Rare
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
Released
2026-04-24
Collector number
243
Artist
Fajareka Setiawan
Commander rank
4,331 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)

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About Dance with Calamity

Dance with Calamity is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare red sorcery from Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC), a Commander product released in April 2026. It is collector number 243 in that set, with art by Fajareka Setiawan. It costs {7}{R} (seven generic and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 8. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 3 sets, from March of the Machine Commander (2023) to Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (2026). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.37 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

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.

It was just another day on Innistrad.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.37 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Dance with Calamity by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of Dance with Calamity

Dance with Calamity has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2835Rare2026
March of the Machine Commander (MOC) #116Rare2023
March of the Machine Commander (MOC) #29Rare2023

Official rulings

Seven official rulings apply to Dance with Calamity, newest first.

  • 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.

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