Coming In Hot
Instant
Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #17325
Coming In Hot gives a creature haste and double strike until end of turn — that's a one-card, one-mana setup for combat-damage triggers, voltron kills, or just ending a game from nowhere. At instant speed for a single red mana, the rate is real.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Coming In Hot earns its slot in any deck that wins through combat damage triggers — Brokers Ascendancy voltron, Isshin double-strike abuse, or any commander that wants to connect once and snowball. Pauper is where it sees the most competitive friction, slotting into aggressive red or Boros lists that need a surprise closer. In Modern and Pioneer the competition from similar effects is steep enough that it rarely makes the cut outside of budget builds. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in it. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic — if your planeswalker win condition needs to connect, Coming In Hot is a live card.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Coming In Hot is pure bulk — pick up a playset for under a dollar without thinking about it. Bulk commons rarely move on price, so there's no urgency either direction; it's just cheap, and that's the whole story.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.