Volatile Stormdrake

As of Aug 8, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of Volatile Stormdrake is $0.46 (MH3 #79), and the most expensive is $15.39 (MH3 #329, Borderless, Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $0.46, down 4.2% over 7 days, up 17.9% over 30 days, up 15.0% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $3.81 (2024).

Volatile Stormdrake has 4 tracked printings across 2 sets, in nonfoil and foil finishes, including borderless, alt art and prerelease treatments.

MH3 #79

$0.46

CK $0.79 / $0.20 57%

MP $0.15 202 avail

MH3 #79 Foil

$0.62 +35%

CK $1.49 / $0.45 27%

MP $0.51 25 avail

MH3 #404 Alt Art

$0.95 +107%

CK $1.29 / $0.33 65%

MP $0.64 39 avail

PMH3 #79s Prerelease Foil

$3.41 +641%

CK $4.49 / $1.35 60%

MP $7.07 1 avail

MH3 #329 Borderless

$4.39 +854%

CK $3.49 / $1.60 64%

MP $3.33 35 avail

MH3 #404 Alt Art Foil

$5.65 +1128%

CK $5.99 / $3.00 47%

MP $5.65 11 avail

MH3 #329 Borderless Foil

$15.39 +3246%

CK $22.99 / $11.50 25%

MP $14.57 16 avail

Card Kingdom currently pays $11.50 cash for MH3 #329 (Foil); the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 50% (wide).

• Jun 7, 2024 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.
• Jun 7, 2024 Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.
• Jun 7, 2024 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.
• Jun 7, 2024 If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you "may pay" some amount of {E}, and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won't resolve. You can't pay any {E} even if you want to.
• Jun 7, 2024 If an effect says you get one or more {E}, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more {E}, 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.

Volatile Stormdrake has been reprinted 7 times. The Modern Horizons 3 reprint cut the price 83% in 30 days.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment	Price before	Day 1	30 days	90 days
MH3 #404	2024-06-14	Rare	Alt Art	$6.15	$4.04	$2.09	$1.67
MH3 #329	2024-06-14	Rare	Borderless	$10.84	$8.69	$4.88	$4.71
MH3 #79	2024-06-14	Rare	Standard	$3.81	$2.31	$1.79	$1.15
MH3 #79	2024-06-14	Rare	Standard	$10.62	$2.83	$1.78	$1.64
MH3 #329	2024-06-14	Rare	Borderless	$26.07	$31.13	$24.28	$17.18
PMH3 #79s	2024-06-14	Rare	Prerelease	$11.68	$9.81	$4.75	$2.56
MH3 #404	2024-06-14	Rare	Alt Art	$20.03	$10.44	$10.79	$6.53

Volatile Stormdrake is the #1,986 most-played card on EDHREC, down 65 places over the last 30 days.