Bogardan Firefiend
Creature — Elemental Spirit
When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to target creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tenth Edition
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #28117
Bogardan Firefiend trades itself for 2 damage to any target on death — relevant only when that damage is the last piece of a sacrifice combo, not as a standalone threat. At four mana for a 2/2 with no immediate board impact, it earns its slot in exactly one context: engines that chain creature deaths for value.
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 |
Bogardan Firefiend is a niche piece in Commander, showing up in sacrifice-focused builds that need a redundant damage trigger on death — think Judith, the Scourge Diva or Ayara, Widow of the Realm shells where draining one point at a time accumulates. In Pauper it's legal but outclassed by commons that demand less mana for similar or better death triggers. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern are non-starters — the effect is simply too small and the rate too poor to compete at those power levels. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: playable only in a dedicated sacrifice shell, irrelevant everywhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Bogardan Firefiend is deep bulk — the price of a sleeve, not a card. It won't appreciate; bulk commons with narrow applications don't move, so grab it from any trade binder and don't look twice at the price tag.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.