Consuming Bonfire
Kindred Sorcery — Elemental
Choose one —
• Consuming Bonfire deals 4 damage to target non-Elemental creature.
• Consuming Bonfire deals 7 damage to target Treefolk creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #29629
Consuming Bonfire deals 4 damage to a non-Human creature or 6 damage to a Treefolk — narrow targeting and sorcery speed make this worse than most four-mana removal even before you account for the tribal condition. Outside a dedicated Treefolk shell, there is no reason to run it over Chaos Warp, Beast Within, or a dozen other options.
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 |
Consuming Bonfire is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different conversations. In Pauper it competes with Breath Weapon, Fiery Cannonade, and other commons that hit players or multiple targets — Consuming Bonfire loses that fight. In Commander, four mana at sorcery speed for conditional single-target damage is below rate; the format's threat density demands answers that work universally, not ones that cap out at 4 damage against most creatures. Legacy and Vintage have access to so much efficient interaction that Consuming Bonfire never sees a sleeve.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Consuming Bonfire is deep bulk — you can pick up a copy for essentially nothing, and that price reflects exactly what the market thinks of it. Don't expect it to move; cards with this narrow a use case stay at the floor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.