Brothers of Fire
Creature — Human Shaman
: This creature deals 1 damage to any target and 1 damage to you.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Dark
- Price
- $0.86
- EDHREC rank
- #29680
Brothers of Fire gives you a repeatable, mana-sink ping that also deals 1 to each opponent — relevant reach in multiplayer — but the activation cost of 2R plus tapping means it competes hard with actually casting spells. It earns a slot in dedicated Goblin or red-value engines; everywhere else it's too slow.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Brothers of Fire sees virtually no competitive play in Legacy or Vintage — the activation is too mana-intensive in formats where the game ends before you accumulate that kind of float. Pauper is the most credible home outside Commander, specifically in slower red-based control or burn shells that can leverage the ping over multiple turns. In Commander, Brothers of Fire is a niche role-player: the 1-to-each-opponent clause scales with pod size, making it quietly above-rate for chip damage in long games, but it needs a deck that generates surplus mana to fire it more than once or twice.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.86 bulk tier
At $0.86, Brothers of Fire sits in bulk-rare territory, which is exactly what it's worth. Demand is too narrow to expect this to climb — pick it up if you want it, but there's no urgency.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.