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Cinderhaze Wretch

Creature — Elemental Shaman

{T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.
Put a -1/-1 counter on this creature: Untap this creature.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Shadowmoor
Price
$0.22
EDHREC rank
#15240
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Cinderhaze Wretch card art
Cinderhaze Wretch forces repeated discard from any opponent while generating its own untap fuel — the effect is oppressive in multiples, and Myrkul, Lord of Bones makes multiples trivial by turning every Wretch that dies into a persistent enchantment that never stops tapping. The cost is a five-mana 3/4 that asks you to build around untapping it, which means it's a build-around card, not a staple — run it in the right shell or don't run it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Myrkul, Lord of Bones

Myrkul, Lord of Bones

35.8% of decks · synergy 0.35

Myrkul, Lord of Bones converts Cinderhaze Wretch into an indestructible enchantment on death, meaning the discard engine survives board wipes and keeps firing every turn without needing the creature alive to do it.

02
Mairsil, the Pretender

Mairsil, the Pretender

17.7% of decks · synergy 0.18

Mairsil, the Pretender cages Cinderhaze Wretch to copy its tap ability, letting Mairsil force discard repeatedly as long as you can give it untap outlets — a clean, repeatable hand-disruption package stapled to a commander that already wants activated abilities.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Cinderhaze Wretch is a Commander card through and through — the repeated discard effect only compounds in a four-player game where opponents can't easily coordinate to eliminate a single threat before it drains three hands. In Legacy and Vintage, a five-mana creature that needs untap support isn't competing with the format's actual discard tools, so it simply doesn't see play. Pauper allows it and the untap synergies exist at common, but the format's threat density makes a slow, tap-based discard engine a liability. Play Cinderhaze Wretch in Commander and nowhere else.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.22 bulk tier

At $0.22, Cinderhaze Wretch sits firmly in bulk territory, which is accurate — demand is narrow and confined almost entirely to Myrkul builds. Don't expect the price to move; bulk rares with single-commander appeal tend to stay bulk.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.