Cosmium Blast
Instant
Cosmium Blast deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #19625
Cosmium Blast deals damage to a creature or planeswalker and replaces itself with a card draw — the kind of rate that earns a slot. The cost is that it's a sorcery, which means you're committing mana on your own turn with no ability to hold up interaction.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Cosmium Blast competes against instant-speed removal, and sorcery speed is a real tax in a four-player game where you want mana available on every turn cycle. It's most defensible in decks that want card draw stapled to anything, or that have ways to give spells flash. In faster 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, Cosmium Blast is too slow — Lightning Bolt and similar rate the floor much higher. Pauper is where it has the most legitimate claim, since the draw-attached-to-removal density at common is lower and every card counts.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Cosmium Blast is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a commons box, not buying singles. Bulk commons rarely move on price, so there's no reason to stock up speculatively; just grab one when you need it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.