Bloodpyre Elemental
Creature — Elemental
Sacrifice this creature: It deals 4 damage to target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #28745
Bloodpyre Elemental trades itself for any target creature or planeswalker at instant speed — four mana, no conditions, guaranteed removal stapled to a 3/1 body you were going to sacrifice anyway. The cost is real: five mana total and a creature slot for what is ultimately a slightly dressed-up removal spell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Bloodpyre Elemental is a bulk role-player in dedicated sacrifice decks — it clears a blocker or a planeswalker and feeds whatever engine needs a creature in the bin, but five mana is steep when Generous Gift and Reality Shift exist at three. In Pauper, instant-speed unconditional removal at common is legitimately scarce, and the 3/1 body is relevant enough that it can see play in sacrifice or elementals shells where the creature type matters. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern are too fast and too efficient for a five-mana creature-spell hybrid to compete — Bloodpyre Elemental is strictly a Limited or synergy-dependent constructed card in those formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Bloodpyre Elemental is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. It won't appreciate unless a future combo piece or commander dramatically changes its ceiling, so grab copies only if you're sleeving them today.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.